Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Nadine Stair

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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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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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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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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Morita, Akio

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Sophia Loren

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Joel, Billy

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

Gates, Bill

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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

Churchill, Winston