Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Nadine Stair

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

Einstein, Albert

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

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

Gingrich, Newt

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Rostand, Jean

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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 part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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

George Bernard Shaw

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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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 err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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

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

Henry James

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

Confucius

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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