Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

Best Quotes about Mistakes

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Battista, Orlando A.

10.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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 part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

15.

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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

18.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

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

Link, Henry C.

23.

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

28.

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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

30.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Taylor, Jeremy

33.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

35.

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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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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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.

41.

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

Donald Foster

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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

45.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Joel, Billy

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.