Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

- Cato the Elder

Best Quotes about Mistakes

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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

Sophia Loren

It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Churchill, Winston

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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 value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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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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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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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Rostand, Jean

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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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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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

Elbert Hubbard

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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

Nadine Stair

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

Waitley, Denis

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Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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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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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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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 person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery