Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Ward Cleaver

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Gates, Bill

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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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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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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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 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

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

Proverb, German

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Henry James

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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

Stair, Nadine

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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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Sophia Loren

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams