Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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 make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Gates, Bill

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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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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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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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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

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