Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Link, Henry C.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Gates, Bill

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

Knight, Philip

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

10.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

11.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Joel, Billy

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

20.

An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Sophia Loren

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Waitley, Denis

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Elbert Hubbard

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

36.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

38.

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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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

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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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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's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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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