Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Sophia Loren

I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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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 I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Pearl Buck

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Link, Henry C.

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Henry James

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Joel, Billy

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Henry C. Link

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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