Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Niels Bohr

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Hein, Piet

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Ford, Henry

Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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

12.

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

Gates, Bill

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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

15.

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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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Bradshaw, John

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Henry C. Link

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Gingrich, Newt

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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 over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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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

41.

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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Jenkins, Josh