Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Waitley, Denis

There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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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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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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 discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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No man fails who does his best...

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

21.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

31.

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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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Einstein, Albert

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