Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

- Bradshaw, John

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Joel, Billy

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

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

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.

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

Waitley, Denis

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Einstein, Albert

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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, 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.

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

Link, Henry C.

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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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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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

Shapira, Gina

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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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

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

Ford, Henry

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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