Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Taylor, Jeremy

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Gates, Bill

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Cullen Hightower

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Pearl Buck

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

Gingrich, Newt

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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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

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

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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.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Proverb, German

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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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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Pomfret

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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

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

Shapira, Gina

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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

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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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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 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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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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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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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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett