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Mistakes

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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.

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

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

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Confucius

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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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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Henry C. Link

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

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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'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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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

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

Hein, Piet

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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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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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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 a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

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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