Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Shapira, Gina

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Smith, Harold J.

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

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Jenkins, Josh

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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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No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Sophia Loren

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Henry James

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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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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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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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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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

Pearl Buck

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Proverb, German

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately.

Covey, Stephen R.

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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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

Nadine Stair

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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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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Waitley, Denis

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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