Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Nadine Stair

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Pearl Buck

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

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

Proverb, German

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

19.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Churchill, Winston

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Joel, Billy

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Peter McWilliams

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Boswell, Nelson