Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Rumsfeld, Donald

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

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

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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

Pomfret

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

Gates, Bill

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

Sophia Loren

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Henry James

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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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 the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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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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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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

Henry C. Link

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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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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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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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

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

44.

I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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