Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Nadine Stair

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

Morita, Akio

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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

Henry C. Link

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

Proverb, German

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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 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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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

27.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Pomfret

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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

Joel, Billy

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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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

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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