Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Taylor, Jeremy

Best Quotes about Mistakes

I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Gates, Bill

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

Carnegie, Dale

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

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Shapira, Gina

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

Bradshaw, John

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I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Joel, Billy

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

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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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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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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Churchill, Winston

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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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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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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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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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MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

26.

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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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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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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Sophia Loren

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

Walter Bagehot

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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 be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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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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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Wooden, John