Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

- Therous, Phyllis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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

Shapira, Gina

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Smith, Harold J.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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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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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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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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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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Waitley, Denis

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Proverb, German

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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