Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Pearl Buck

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Cullen Hightower

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Gates, Bill

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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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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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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Nadine Stair

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

Henry James

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

Sophia Loren

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

Ford, Henry

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Proverb, German

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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