Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Niels Bohr

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

12.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Cullen Hightower

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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

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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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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

23.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Link, Henry C.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

30.

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

Gates, Bill

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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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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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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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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster