Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Rostand, Jean

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

10.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

11.

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

12.

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

Pearl Buck

14.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

15.

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

16.

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

Ward Cleaver

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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

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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

24.

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

Burnett, Leo

25.

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

26.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

28.

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

30.

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

Joel, Billy

31.

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

George Bernard Shaw

32.

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

Shapira, Gina

33.

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

Sophia Loren

34.

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

35.

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

43.

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

Gates, Bill

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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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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