Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Nadine Stair

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

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

Pomfret

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

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

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Garry Marshall

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

Bradshaw, John

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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

Rostand, Jean

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.