Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

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

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Walter Bagehot

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

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

Boswell, Nelson

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Sophia Loren

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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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Elbert Hubbard