Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Stair, Nadine

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Elbert Hubbard

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

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

Waitley, Denis

Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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

Gingrich, Newt

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

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Churchill, Winston

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

Cullen Hightower

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

Boswell, Nelson

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

Fuller, Buckminster

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

Jenkins, Josh

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The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

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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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A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

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

Gates, Bill

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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

Smith, Harold J.

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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I made a wrong mistake

Berra, Yogi

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

Rostand, Jean

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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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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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

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

Sophia Loren

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

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.