Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

- Huxley, Aldous

Best Quotes about Mistakes

Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

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

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

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Donald Foster

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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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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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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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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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The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Mcwilliams, Peter

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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 part of the dues one pays for a full life.

Sophia Loren

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

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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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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

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

Confucius

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Link, Henry C.

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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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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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.