Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Bradshaw, John

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

Gates, Bill

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Proverb, German

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Cicero

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

Rickover, Hyman G.

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

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

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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No one that ever lived has ever had enough power, prestige, or knowledge to overcome the basic condition of all life -- you win some and you lose some.

Keyes Jr., Ken

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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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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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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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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

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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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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

20.

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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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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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

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

Taylor, Jeremy

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

Rostand, Jean

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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

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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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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When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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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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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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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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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

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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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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall