Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Smith, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Pearl Buck

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Rostand, Jean

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Peter McWilliams

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

Hein, Piet

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

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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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

Garry Marshall

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

Joel, Billy

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

Confucius

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Gates, Bill

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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