Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

- Thomas, Lewis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Confucius

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

Garry Marshall

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

Gates, Bill

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

Joel, Billy

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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

Donald Foster

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

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

Pearl Buck

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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Henry James

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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 the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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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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Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Henry C. Link

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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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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