Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Gates, Bill

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

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

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Henry James

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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 person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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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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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 have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Hein, Piet

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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