Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

- Dan Quayle

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

Donald Foster

2.

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

3.

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

4.

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

5.

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

Link, Henry C.

6.

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

Bradshaw, John

7.

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

Waitley, Denis

8.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

9.

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

Henry C. Link

10.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

11.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

15.

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

Jenkins, Josh

16.

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

17.

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

18.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

19.

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

20.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

21.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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.

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

Ward Cleaver

24.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

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

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

28.

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

Shapira, Gina

29.

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

30.

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

Pearl Buck

31.

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

Boswell, Nelson

32.

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

Gates, Bill

33.

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

34.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

35.

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

36.

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

37.

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

38.

It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

39.

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

Carnegie, Dale

40.

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

41.

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

Elbert Hubbard

42.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

43.

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

44.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

45.

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

46.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

47.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

48.

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

49.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

50.

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