Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Shapira, Gina

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

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.

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

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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

Stair, Nadine

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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

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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.

Nadine Stair

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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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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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Churchill, Winston

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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