Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Gingrich, Newt

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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

Einstein, Albert

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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

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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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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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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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