Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

Churchill, Winston

No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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.

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

Fuller, Buckminster

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Gingrich, Newt

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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

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

Henry C. Link

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

Ford, Henry

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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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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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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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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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 best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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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 greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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

Einstein, Albert

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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 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.