Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

Wooden, John

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

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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

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

Gates, Bill

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

Henry C. Link

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Garry Marshall

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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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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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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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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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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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Churchill, Winston