Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

- Korda, Michael

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Gates, Bill

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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

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

Bankhead, Tallulah

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Joel, Billy

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

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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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Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Hein, Piet

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

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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Rostand, Jean

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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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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Korda, Michael

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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

Sophia Loren

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