Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

- Lehr, Lewis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Knight, Philip

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

Einstein, Albert

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Boswell, Nelson

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.

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

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

Peter McWilliams

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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

11.

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

12.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bradshaw, John

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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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 over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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

Walter Bagehot

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Gates, Bill

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Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Proverb, German

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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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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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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Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

50.

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