Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Bankhead, Tallulah

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Burnett, Leo

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Proverb, German

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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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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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

29.

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

Gates, Bill

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

32.

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

Confucius

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

Henry C. Link

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Elbert Hubbard

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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

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

Donald Foster

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

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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