Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

- Magazine, Bernard

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Garry Marshall

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

Walter Bagehot

Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Gates, Bill

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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

Waitley, Denis

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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 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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To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wooden, John

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Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Cullen Hightower

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

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

Bradshaw, John

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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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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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

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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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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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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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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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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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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