Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip