Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

Gates, Bill

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

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

18.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Sophia Loren

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

Nadine Stair

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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Proverb, German

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Peter McWilliams

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

Joel, Billy