Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Gates, Bill

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Waitley, Denis

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

11.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

12.

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

13.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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

19.

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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

32.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

35.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

36.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

37.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

38.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Joel, Billy

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

Proverb, German

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

43.

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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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 okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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

Link, Henry C.

48.

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

49.

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