Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Burnett, Leo

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Henry James

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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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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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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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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Sophia Loren

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ford, Henry

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Shapira, Gina

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

39.

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 almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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

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

Joel, Billy

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

Donald Foster

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard