Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Boswell, Nelson

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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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

Nadine Stair

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Confucius

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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 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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Battista, Orlando A.