Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

- Rumsfeld, Donald

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Proverb, German

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Joel, Billy

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Henry James

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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I do not fear failure. I only fear the slowing up of the engine inside of me which is pounding, saying, Keep going, someone must be on top, why not you?

Patton, George S.

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Donald Foster

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shapira, Gina

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Sophia Loren

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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

Gates, Bill

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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