Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Knight, Philip

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Waitley, Denis

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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

Pearl Buck

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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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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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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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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.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Henry 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

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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.

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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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