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

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

Donald Foster

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Garry Marshall

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Gates, Bill

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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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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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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; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

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The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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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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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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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Confucius

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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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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