Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Proverb, German

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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

Morita, Akio

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

Henry James

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

Donald Foster

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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 can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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

Smith, Harold J.

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Joel, Billy

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

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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

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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