Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Ford, Henry

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

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.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

10.

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

Gates, Bill

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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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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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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Morita, Akio

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Henry James

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

Pearl Buck

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

Wooden, John

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Niels Bohr

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

Confucius

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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

Sophia Loren

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston