Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Churchill, Winston

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Cullen Hightower

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Joel, Billy

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Pearl Buck

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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

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Carnegie, Dale

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

Donald Foster

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

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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

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

Gates, Bill

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Confucius

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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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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