Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

Gingrich, Newt

2.

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

3.

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

Gates, Bill

4.

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

Bradshaw, John

5.

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

Link, Henry C.

6.

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

7.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

8.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

9.

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

Henry C. Link

10.

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

11.

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

12.

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

13.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

14.

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

Donald Foster

15.

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

Pearl Buck

16.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

17.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

18.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

19.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

20.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

21.

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

Boswell, Nelson

22.

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

23.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

25.

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

26.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

27.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Hein, Piet

31.

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

32.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

33.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

34.

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

35.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich