Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Proverb, German

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

Rostand, Jean

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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 are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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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 love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Sophia Loren

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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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

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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