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

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Gates, Bill

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

Sophia Loren

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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 the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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

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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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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 are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Link, Henry C.

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

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

Donald Foster

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall