Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Fuller, Buckminster

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Proverb, German

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Cullen Hightower

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

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

Henry James

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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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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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'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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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Donald Foster

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Gingrich, Newt