Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Proverb, German

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

Nadine Stair

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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.

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

Henry James

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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

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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Link, Henry C.

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