Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Carnegie, Dale

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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

Donald Foster

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Stair, Nadine

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

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

Proverb, German

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

10.

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

Gates, Bill

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Waitley, Denis

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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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 the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

18.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Henry James

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Joel, Billy

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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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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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

Churchill, Winston

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Rostand, Jean

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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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