Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Wooden, John

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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

Waitley, Denis

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

10.

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

11.

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

Waitley, Denis

14.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

18.

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

Shapira, Gina

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

25.

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

Ford, Henry

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

28.

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

Pearl Buck

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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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The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

31.

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

32.

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

34.

It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Henry James

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Joel, Billy

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Einstein, Albert

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

West, Jessamyn

49.

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

Walter Bagehot

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George