Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Elbert Hubbard

Best Quotes about Mistakes

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Elbert Hubbard

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Jenkins, Josh

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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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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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Gates, Bill

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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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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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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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, German

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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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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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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

Henry James

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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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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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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