Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Peter McWilliams

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

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

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

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Waitley, Denis

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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

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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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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Gates, Bill

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Ward Cleaver

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Ford, Henry

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.