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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Donald Foster

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Henry C. Link

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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, 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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Hugo, Victor

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Sophia Loren

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Joel, Billy

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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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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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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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