Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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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

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

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Confucius

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Sophia Loren

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.

Judd, H. Stanley

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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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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 can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

Gingrich, Newt

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Proverb, German

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

Link, Henry C.

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Donald Foster

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

Joel, Billy

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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 the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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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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