Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Gingrich, Newt

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Hein, Piet

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Henry James

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Burnett, Leo

31.

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

Proverb, German

32.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Joel, Billy

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Confucius

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Gates, Bill