Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Wooden, John

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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Niels Bohr

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

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

Henry James

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

11.

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

Gates, Bill

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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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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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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 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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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 stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Sophia Loren

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

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

Ford, Henry

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Proverb, German

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

Pareto, Vilfredo