Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

Nadine Stair

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Gates, Bill

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

Henry C. Link

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Joel, Billy

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Niels Bohr

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Peter McWilliams

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 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