Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

- Lehr, Lewis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Gates, Bill

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

Link, Henry C.

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

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shapira, Gina

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

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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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

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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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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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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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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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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Stair, Nadine

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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 who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

Donald Foster

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

Henry James

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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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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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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 road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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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