Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

Augsburger, David

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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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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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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Proverb, German

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

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Gates, Bill

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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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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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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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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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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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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Henry James