Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

- Pearl Buck

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Proverb, German

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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.

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

Nadine Stair

10.

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

11.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

13.

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

Gates, Bill

14.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

16.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

17.

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

Rostand, Jean

18.

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

Ford, Henry

19.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

22.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

25.

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

26.

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

27.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

28.

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

Carnegie, Dale

29.

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

30.

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

31.

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

Burnett, Leo

32.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

33.

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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

35.

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

36.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

37.

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

Waitley, Denis

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

40.

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

41.

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

Waitley, Denis

48.

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

Henry C. Link

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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