Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Cullen Hightower

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Joel, Billy

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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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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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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

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Sophia Loren

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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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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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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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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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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.