Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Nicolaides, Kimon

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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

Mcwilliams, Peter

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Churchill, Winston

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Bennett, James Gordon

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Gates, Bill

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

Henry James

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

Smith, Harold J.

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Garry Marshall

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

Waitley, Denis

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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

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

Sophia Loren

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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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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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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.

Sculley, John

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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

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

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Fuller, Buckminster