Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

- Meyer, Paul J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Hein, Piet

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Shapira, Gina

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

25.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Churchill, Winston

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Ford, Henry

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

Confucius

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

Sophia Loren

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

41.

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

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

43.

There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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

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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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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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

Joel, Billy

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.