Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

- Rumsfeld, Donald

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Donald Foster

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Joel, Billy

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Waitley, Denis

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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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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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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