Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Henry James

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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

Gates, Bill

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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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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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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

Proverb, German