Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

Cullen Hightower

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

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

Gates, Bill

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Joel, Billy

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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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

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

Henry James

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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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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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