Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

- Channing, William Ellery

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

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

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

Gates, Bill

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

Joel, Billy

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

Sophia Loren

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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Donald Foster

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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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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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Henry James

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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.