Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Smith, Harold J.

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Gates, Bill

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

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

Carnegie, Dale

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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

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

Giovanni, Nikki

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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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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

20.

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

21.

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

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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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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Peter McWilliams

27.

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

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

31.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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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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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, 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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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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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

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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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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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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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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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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