Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Gates, Bill

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Peter McWilliams

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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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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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Ford, Henry

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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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

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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Proverb, German

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

Churchill, Winston

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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 must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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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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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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Al Franken