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

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.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

Gates, Bill

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

Niels Bohr

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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

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 nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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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

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Stair, Nadine

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver