Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

- Drucker, Peter F.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Waitley, Denis

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

Croesus

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

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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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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Sophia Loren

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Smith, Harold 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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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

28.

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

Gates, Bill

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Donald Foster

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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

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

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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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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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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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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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

Boswell, Nelson

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Henry James

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard