Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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

Waitley, Denis

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Confucius

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Henry James

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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

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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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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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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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.

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

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry