Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

1.

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

Fuller, Buckminster

2.

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

3.

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

Knight, Philip

4.

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

5.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

6.

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

7.

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

Waitley, Denis

8.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

9.

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.

10.

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

Cullen Hightower

11.

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

12.

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

13.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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

15.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

16.

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

Bradshaw, John

17.

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

18.

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

Henry C. Link

19.

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

23.

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

24.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

25.

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

26.

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

Einstein, Albert

27.

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

Gates, Bill

28.

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

29.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

30.

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

Smith, Harold J.

31.

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

32.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

33.

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

Gingrich, Newt

34.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

35.

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

Wooden, John

36.

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

37.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

38.

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

39.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

40.

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.

41.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

42.

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

George Bernard Shaw

43.

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

45.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

46.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

47.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

48.

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

49.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

50.

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

Stair, Nadine