Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

- Joyce, James

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

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

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Confucius

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

Gates, Bill

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

Rostand, Jean

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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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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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Joel, Billy

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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

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

Sophia Loren

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Proverb, German

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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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