Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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

The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

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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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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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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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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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

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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 isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

29.

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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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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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Walter Bagehot

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.