Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

- Meyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Shapira, Gina

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

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

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Ford, Henry

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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 love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Proverb, German

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Knight, Philip

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Waitley, Denis

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Henry James

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Joel, Billy

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Gates, Bill

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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

Henry C. Link

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von