Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I made a wrong mistake

- Berra, Yogi

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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.

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

Ford, Henry

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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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 the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Joel, Billy

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

Sophia Loren

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

39.

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

Gates, Bill

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Donald Foster

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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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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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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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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.