Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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.

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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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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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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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

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John