Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Mistakes

If you must make a mistake, make a new one each time.
Dale Carnegie (1888–1955) American Self-Help Author

A good marksman may miss. – Thomas Fuller He that has much to do will do something wrong.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.
John Wooden (1910–2010) American Sportsperson

The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade (1740–1814) French Writer

Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don’t want to fail is the last time you try something … One fails forward toward success.
Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don’t look back at it too long. Mistakes are life’s way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure?. Never quit. Your turn will come.
Og Mandino (1923–96) American Self-Help Author

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 (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) British Children’s Books Writer, Short story, Novelist, Poet, Journalist

Love to faults is always blind, always is to joy inclined. Lawless, winged, and unconfined, and breaks all chains from every mind.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616) British Playwright

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.
Jean de La Fontaine (1621–95) French Poet, Short Story Writer

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 (1850–1924) American New Thought Writer, Physician, Entrepreneur

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.
Common Proverb

No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.
Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) English Political Philosopher

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 (1930–2009) American Basketball Coach

It is the true nature of mankind to learn from mistakes, not from example.
Fred Hoyle (1915–2001) English Astronomer, Mathematician

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.
John Cage (1912–92) American Composer

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed
Bill Gates (b.1955) American Businessperson, Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Author

Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
Paul J. Meyer

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full.
Clarence Day (1874–1935) American Author, Humorist

The faults of a superior man are like the sun and moon. They have their faults, and everyone sees them; they change and everyone looks up to them.
Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones

There is only one real failure possible; and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
Frederic William Farrar (1831–1903) English Clergyman, Writer

A man’s personal defects will commonly have with the rest of the world precisely that importance which they have to himself. If he makes light of them, so will other men.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

A benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.
Benjamin Franklin (1706–90) American Political Leader, Inventor, Diplomat

Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn’t.
Buckminster Fuller (1895–1983) American Inventor, Philosopher

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good.
Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German Poet, Playwright, Theater Personality

Your friend will swallow your mistakes; your enemy will present them on a plate.
Arabic Proverb

He who knows much makes many mistakes.
Turkish Proverb

Man errs as long as he struggles.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

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