Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Taylor, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Pomfret

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

Hein, Piet

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

10.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

11.

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.

12.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

14.

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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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

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

Garry Marshall

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

Henry C. Link

22.

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

Gates, Bill

23.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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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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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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

30.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

39.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

40.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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

44.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

45.

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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