Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Sophia Loren

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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

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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Henry James

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

Confucius

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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

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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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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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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

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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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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Henry C. Link

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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

Gingrich, Newt

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Gates, Bill

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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis