Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Gates, Bill

10.

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

Garry Marshall

11.

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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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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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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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Burnett, Leo

16.

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

Pomfret

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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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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

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

Ward Cleaver

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

21.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Proverb, German

23.

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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

25.

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

26.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

27.

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

28.

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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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

30.

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

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

Joel, Billy

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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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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

41.

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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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.

43.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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.