Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Stair, Nadine

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Einstein, Albert

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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 are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Walter Bagehot

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

Garry Marshall

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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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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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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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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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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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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