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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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

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

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

Donald Foster

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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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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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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 person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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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

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

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Henry C. Link