Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Garry Marshall

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

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

Proverb, German

A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

12.

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

13.

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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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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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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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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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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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

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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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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