Mistakes Quotes
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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. Denis Waitley
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. John Sculley
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. Michael Korda
We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he
who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
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. Napoleon
Hill
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it. Confucius
Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control. Anonymous
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. Ken Keyes Jr.
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. Publilius Syrus
The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top. Dr. Joyce Brothers
I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes. Billy Joel
An old error is always more popular than a new truth. German Proverb
Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change. Gina Shapira
It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it. Chuck Daly
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes. Oscar Wilde
A man's errors are his portals of discovery. James Joyce
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself. Anonymous
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. Maxwell Maltz
Life would be dull without them. Oscar Wilde
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth. Walter Lippmann
Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again. Vincent Van Gogh
It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice. Akio Morita
To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. Joseph Chilton Pearce
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. Jerry Gillies
I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one. James Gordon Bennett
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. Orison Swett Marden
A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn. Anonymous
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them. Harold J. Smith
To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so. Georg C. Lichtenberg
The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few. Philip Knight
There is no original truth, only original error. Gaston Bachelard
The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn. Peter Mcwilliams
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. Carl Jung
Error is discipline through which we advance. William Ellery Channing
It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn. John Bradshaw
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. Salvador Dali
It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. Hyman G. Rickover
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. George Soros
I made a wrong mistake. Yogi Berra
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?'' George S. Patton
It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task. Donald Rumsfeld
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. Henry James
Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors. Aldous Huxley
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. Kimon Nicolaides
Truth is immortal; error is mortal. Mary Baker Eddy
Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth. Jeremy Taylor
I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. Igor Stravinsky
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. Orison Swett Marden
Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. Henry C. Link
I love fools experiments. I am always making them. Charles Darwin
The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less. Piet Hein
We can afford almost any mistake once. Lewis Lehr
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
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. Florence King
It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake. Joseph Fouche
Consider every mistake you do make as an asset. Paul J. Meyer
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. Rene Daumal
If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time. Nadine Stair
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. Orlando A. Battista
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
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones
If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead
What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind. Friedrich Nietzsche
An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. Henri Frederic Amiel
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths. Jean Rostand
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. Phyllis Therous
Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder. Paul J. Meyer
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones. Anonymous
The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try. Peter F. Drucker
It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better. Jane Cahill Pfeiffer
Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today. Anonymous
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
The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake... Nelson Boswell
If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes. John Wooden
You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself. Samuel Levenson
Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the
person who makes the same mistake twice. William James Mayo
All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes. Winston
Churchill
The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it. Henry David Thoreau
No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it. Thomas Hobbes
Mistakes are stepping stones to success. Charles E. Popplestone
No man fails who does his best... Orison Swett Marden
We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes. Mickey Rivers
It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas. Anonymous
A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything. Bernard Magazine
Do not fear mistakes -- there are none. Miles Davis
A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something. Anonymous
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
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. Jean Rostand
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Theodore Roosevelt
To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas. Leo Burnett
There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake. Jonathan Swift
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it. Josh Jenkins
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken. Oliver Cromwell
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes. Sir Humphrey Davy
Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing. H. Stanley Judd
Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it -- immediately. Stephen R. Covey
We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something! Newt Gingrich
Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections. Vilfredo Pareto
Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't. Buckminster Fuller
Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means --one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies. George Eliot
A clever man commits no minor blunders. Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied. Pearl S. Buck
A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man. Julius Robert Oppenheimer
To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. Doug Larson
It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error. Marcus T. Cicero
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes. Denis Waitley
The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all. Pomfret
He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
We are built to make mistakes, coded for error. Lewis Thomas
The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. Elbert
Hubbard
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement. Henry Ford
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player. Anonymous
We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents. Anonymous
It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others. Anonymous
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed. Bill Gates
Mistakes are a fact of life it is the response to error that counts. Nikki Giovanni
MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments. Anonymous
All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do. Arnold Bennett
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. Alexander Pope
That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one. Samuel Johnson
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors. Anonymous
I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right. Tallulah Bankhead
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. Denis Waitley
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