Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Bradshaw, John

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Peter McWilliams

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Joel, Billy

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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

Gates, Bill

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Morita, Akio

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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

11.

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

15.

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

16.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Battista, Orlando A.

18.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

21.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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

24.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

25.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

26.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

27.

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

Smith, Harold J.

28.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

29.

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

Hein, Piet

30.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

31.

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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

33.

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

Pomfret

34.

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Confucius

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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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 the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Waitley, Denis