Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Jones, Franklin P.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

10.

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

11.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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

Gates, Bill

19.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Battista, Orlando A.

24.

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

Waitley, Denis

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

Rostand, Jean

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

32.

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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Donald Foster

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

42.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

43.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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