Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

Confucius

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

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

10.

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

11.

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

12.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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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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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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

23.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Rostand, Jean

44.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.