Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

- Magazine, Bernard

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Waitley, Denis

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Churchill, Winston

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

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

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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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Gates, Bill

18.

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

19.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Confucius

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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

24.

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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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

30.

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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

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

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

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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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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Proverb, German

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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