Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

- Meyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Ford, Henry

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

Gates, Bill

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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

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

Confucius

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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No man fails who does his best...

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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Walter Bagehot

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Henry James

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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