Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Joel, Billy

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

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

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

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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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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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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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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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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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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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

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

Link, Henry C.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Pearl Buck

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

Walter Bagehot

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Dali, Salvador

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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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

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.