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

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

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

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

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

Gates, Bill

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Nadine Stair

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Proverb, German

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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

Shapira, Gina

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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

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

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

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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

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

Peter McWilliams

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey