Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

- Popplestone, Charles E.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Smith, Harold J.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Hein, Piet

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

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

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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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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

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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Gates, Bill

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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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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Confucius

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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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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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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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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.

West, Jessamyn

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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 no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Gingrich, Newt

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis