Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

- George Bernard Shaw

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Waitley, Denis

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

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

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Henry James

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

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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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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Knight, Philip

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Pearl Buck

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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Proverb, German

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

Garry Marshall

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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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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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Rostand, Jean

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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 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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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