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

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

Nadine Stair

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

Gates, Bill

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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

Garry Marshall

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Confucius

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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 man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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

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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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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Ford, Henry

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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