Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Pearl Buck

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Link, Henry C.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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

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

Proverb, German

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Boswell, Nelson

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Henry James

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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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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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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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