Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Bradshaw, John

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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

Waitley, Denis

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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, 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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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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There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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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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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, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Sophia Loren

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Proverb, German

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

Churchill, Winston

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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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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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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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