Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

- Joyce, James

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Pearl Buck

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Henry James

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, German

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis