Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

- Peter McWilliams

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Pomfret

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

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

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

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

10.

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Henry C. Link

12.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Proverb, German

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

18.

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

Confucius

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Link, Henry C.

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

25.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

27.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Pearl Buck

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Gates, Bill

44.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

45.

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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Garry Marshall

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.