Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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.

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

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

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Henry James

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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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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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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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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

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

Stair, Nadine

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Ward Cleaver

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

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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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The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.

Pomfret

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Henry C. Link

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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