Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Pomfret

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

Cullen Hightower

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

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

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

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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 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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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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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 man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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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 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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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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