Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Jones, Franklin P.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Cullen Hightower

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Proverb, German

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Ford, Henry

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Confucius

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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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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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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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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