Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

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

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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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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 man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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

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

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Pearl Buck

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

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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Rostand, Jean

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Gates, Bill

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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