Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Sophia Loren

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Proverb, German

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

Ford, Henry

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Confucius

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

Einstein, Albert

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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'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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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 successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Nadine Stair

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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

Joel, Billy

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Pearl Buck

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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