Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Morita, Akio

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

Gates, Bill

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Cullen Hightower

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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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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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 person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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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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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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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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Henry James