Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Henry C. Link

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

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

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Einstein, Albert

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

Joel, Billy

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Sophia Loren

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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 merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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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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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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It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

Rostand, Jean

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

Henry James

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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