Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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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

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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

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

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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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 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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

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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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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's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Henry James

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

Waitley, Denis

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Waitley, Denis