Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Donald Foster

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

Gates, Bill

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

Confucius

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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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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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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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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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, German

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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