Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Bradshaw, John

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Confucius

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Waitley, Denis

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

10.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

11.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

12.

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

Gates, Bill

13.

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

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

15.

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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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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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.

18.

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

Proverb, German

19.

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

20.

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

21.

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

22.

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

23.

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

Waitley, Denis

24.

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

27.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

31.

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

Sophia Loren

32.

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

Donald Foster

33.

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

34.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

35.

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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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

37.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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

39.

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

Link, Henry C.

40.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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

42.

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

Peter McWilliams

43.

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

44.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Smith, Harold J.

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero