Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

- Hein, Piet

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Jenkins, Josh

If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.

Mary Pickford

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

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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

Ward Cleaver

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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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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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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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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

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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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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

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

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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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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

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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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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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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

Sophia Loren

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

Nadine Stair

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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.