Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

- Darwin, Charles R.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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

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

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

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Donald Foster

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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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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

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

Nadine Stair

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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 have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.