Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

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

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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

Sophia Loren

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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 better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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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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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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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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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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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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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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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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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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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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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 mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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