Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

- Mcwilliams, Peter

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Gates, Bill

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

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

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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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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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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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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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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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

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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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

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.