Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

- Lehr, Lewis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Morita, Akio

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

Knight, Philip

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Henry James

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

10.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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.

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

22.

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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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

24.

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

Gates, Bill

25.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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 best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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 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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

32.

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

Sophia Loren

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Joel, Billy

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Nadine Stair

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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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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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

49.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert