Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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 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.

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

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

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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 err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Proverb, German

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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