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

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Henry James

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Garry Marshall

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Waitley, Denis

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Sophia Loren

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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 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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Burnett, Leo

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Stair, Nadine

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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