Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Knight, Philip

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.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Cullen Hightower

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

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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

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

Proverb, German

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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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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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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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Confucius

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

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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

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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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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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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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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 stepping stones to success.