Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Sophia Loren

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

Jones, Franklin P.

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

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 love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

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.

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

Gates, Bill

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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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

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Henry James

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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 a fact of life it is the response to error that counts.

Giovanni, Nikki

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Ward Cleaver

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Walter Bagehot

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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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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Link, Henry C.

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Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

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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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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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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