Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Battista, Orlando A.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, German

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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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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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Henry C. Link

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Henry James

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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Joel, Billy

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

Gates, Bill

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero