Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

2.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

3.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

4.

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

Gates, Bill

5.

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

Boswell, Nelson

6.

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

7.

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

Ford, Henry

8.

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

Niels Bohr

9.

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

10.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

11.

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

Stair, Nadine

12.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

13.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

14.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

15.

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

Morita, Akio

16.

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

Bradshaw, John

17.

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

18.

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

19.

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

Henry James

20.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

21.

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

22.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

26.

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

Ward Cleaver

27.

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

Einstein, Albert

28.

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.

29.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

30.

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

Rostand, Jean

31.

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

32.

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

33.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

34.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

35.

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

Burnett, Leo

36.

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

Link, Henry C.

37.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

Henry C. Link

39.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

40.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

45.

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

46.

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

Pomfret

47.

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

Cullen Hightower

48.

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

49.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

50.

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

Giovanni, Nikki