Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Ward Cleaver

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h

Zedong, Mao

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

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

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

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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

Joel, Billy

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

Ford, Henry

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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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

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

Walter Bagehot

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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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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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Proverb, German

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

Wooden, John

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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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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 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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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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