Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Cullen Hightower

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Gates, Bill

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

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

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

Donald Foster

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Confucius

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sophia Loren

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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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 trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Carnegie, Dale