Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

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Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Ford, Henry

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

Link, Henry C.

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Proverb, German

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

31.

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

Gates, Bill

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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 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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If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.

Stair, Nadine

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Sophia Loren

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

Knight, Philip

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Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken