Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Donald Foster

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Cullen Hightower

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Einstein, Albert

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

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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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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Waitley, Denis

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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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, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Link, Henry C.

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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 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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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.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Gates, Bill

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

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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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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