Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Mistakes

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Gates, Bill

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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 necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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

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

Shapira, Gina

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Niels Bohr

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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

26.

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

Donald Foster

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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.

30.

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

George Bernard Shaw

31.

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

Link, Henry C.

32.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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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 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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.