Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Henry James

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

Waitley, Denis

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Sophia Loren

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

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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Morita, Akio

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Pomfret

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

Gates, Bill

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Nadine Stair

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

Niels Bohr

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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

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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 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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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