Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Walter Bagehot

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.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Cullen Hightower

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Bradshaw, John

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

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Knight, Philip

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

Sophia Loren

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Proverb, German

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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 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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

41.

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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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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

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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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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