Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Link, Henry C.

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

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

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Henry James

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

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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Bradshaw, John

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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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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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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 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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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Gates, Bill

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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

Rostand, Jean