Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

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

- Waitley, Denis

Best Quotes about Mistakes

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

Henry C. Link

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

Jenkins, Josh

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

Rumsfeld, Donald

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

Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

Churchill, Winston

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

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

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

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Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

Ford, Henry

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Sophia Loren

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder

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To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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

Proverb, German

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

Gates, Bill

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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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Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

29.

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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

Walter Bagehot

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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

Joel, Billy

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

Elbert Hubbard

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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 be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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

Henry James

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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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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 best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Gingrich, Newt