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

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

Link, Henry C.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Henry C. Link

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

Gates, Bill

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

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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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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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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

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

Einstein, Albert

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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