Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

- Larson, Doug

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Morita, Akio

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Churchill, Winston

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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

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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

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

20.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Gates, Bill

27.

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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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

33.

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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Ford, Henry

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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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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

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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

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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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

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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

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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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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