Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Jenkins, Josh

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Henry C. Link

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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 made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Walter Bagehot

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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Churchill, Winston

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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

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

Ford, Henry

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

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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