Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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

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

Wooden, John

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

Nadine Stair

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

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

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

Gates, Bill

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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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 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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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 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 better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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

Proverb, German

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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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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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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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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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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 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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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

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

34.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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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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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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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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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Waitley, Denis