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

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

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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

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

Morita, Akio

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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

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

Henry C. Link

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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 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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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We can afford almost any mistake once.