Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Bradshaw, John

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

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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

Knight, Philip

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

If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Henry James

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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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Joel, Billy

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

Proverb, German

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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 always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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.

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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

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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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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 person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Walter Bagehot

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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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 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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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