Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

- Cicero

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Sophia Loren

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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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

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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

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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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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Garry Marshall

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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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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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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

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Einstein, Albert

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Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Ford, Henry

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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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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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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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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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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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

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

Henry James

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

Jones, Franklin P.