Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Churchill, Winston

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

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

Gates, Bill

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

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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

26.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

35.

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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Waitley, Denis

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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