Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

- Hein, Piet

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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

Pearl Buck

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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

Einstein, Albert

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Peter McWilliams

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

10.

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

11.

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

Link, Henry C.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

13.

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

Henry James

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

15.

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

Proverb, German

18.

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

19.

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

Morita, Akio

20.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

21.

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

22.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

23.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

24.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

34.

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

Stair, Nadine

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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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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

45.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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

47.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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