Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Nadine Stair

Best Quotes about 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

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Garry Marshall

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

Nadine Stair

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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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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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Gates, Bill

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Joel, Billy

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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

Link, Henry C.

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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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