Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

Burnett, Leo

2.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

3.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

4.

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

Waitley, Denis

5.

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.

6.

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

7.

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

Peter McWilliams

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Morita, Akio

12.

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

13.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

15.

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

16.

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

17.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

18.

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

Sophia Loren

19.

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

20.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

21.

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

22.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

23.

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

24.

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

Joel, Billy

25.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

26.

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

Donald Foster

27.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

28.

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

29.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

30.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

31.

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

Gates, Bill

32.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

35.

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

Cullen Hightower

36.

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

Confucius

37.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

38.

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

Ford, Henry

39.

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

40.

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

Boswell, Nelson

41.

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

Pomfret

42.

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

Hein, Piet

43.

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

44.

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

45.

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

46.

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

47.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

48.

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

49.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

50.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis