MISTAKES
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(436 votes) Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
David Augsnurger
David Augsnurger
(363 votes) 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
Vincent Van Gogh
1853-1890, Dutch-born French Painter
(346 votes) There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.
Louis Aragon
Louis Aragon
1897-1982, French Poet
(342 votes) 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
George S. Patton
1885-1945, American Army General during World War II
(326 votes) 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
Og Mandino
1923-1996, American Motivational Author, Speaker
(325 votes) 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
Stephen R. Covey
American Speaker, Trainer, Author of ''The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People''
(312 votes) Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
Buckminster Fuller
Buckminster Fuller
American Engineer, Inventor, Designer, Architect ''Geodesic Dome''
(297 votes) When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790, American Scientist, Publisher, Diplomat
(293 votes) It is worse than a crime: it is a mistake.
Joseph Fouche
Joseph Fouche
1759-1820, French Minister of Police Under Napoleon
(280 votes) The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
Peter Mcwilliams
Peter Mcwilliams
American Author of ''Life 101''
(254 votes) A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
(237 votes) She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
Henry James
Henry James
1843-1916, American Author
(233 votes) All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
(231 votes) More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
Harold J. Smith
Harold J. Smith
(226 votes) There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed
Bill Gates
Bill Gates
1955-, American Computer Engineer, Businessman, Founder of Microsoft
(219 votes) 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
Croesus
(216 votes) 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
Mary Pickford
1893-1979, Canadian-born American Actress
(215 votes) Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
Paul J. Meyer
Paul J. Meyer
American Businessman, Author, Motivator
(212 votes) The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.
Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist
(211 votes) 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.
Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
(207 votes) Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.
Paul J. Meyer
Paul J. Meyer
American Businessman, Author, Motivator
(206 votes) It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.
Hyman G. Rickover
Hyman G. Rickover
1900-1986, Naval Engineering Officer
(203 votes) So long as a person who has made mistakes... honestly and sincerely wishes to be cured and to mend his ways, we should welcome him and cure his sickness so that he can become a good comrade. We can never succeed if we just let ourselves go and lash at h
Mao Zedong
Mao Zedong
1893-1976, Founder of Chinese Communist State
(200 votes) Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
Pearl S. Buck
Pearl S. Buck
1892-1973, American Novelist
(199 votes) Truth is immortal; error is mortal.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy
1821-1910, American Founder of the Christian Science Church
(197 votes) If I had to live my life over again, I'd try to make more mistakes next time.
Nadine Stair
Nadine Stair
American Poet
(194 votes) The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.
Kimon Nicolaides
Kimon Nicolaides
(193 votes) While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link
Henry C. Link
(192 votes) Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.
Gina Shapira
Gina Shapira
(189 votes) Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.
Mary Baker Eddy
Mary Baker Eddy
1821-1910, American Founder of the Christian Science Church
(186 votes) 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.
Ken Keyes Jr.
1921-1995, American Author
(186 votes) 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
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
(185 votes) 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
H. Stanley Judd
American Author
(185 votes) I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.
Billy Joel
Billy Joel
1949-, American Musician, Piano Man, Singer, Songwriter
(185 votes) There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.
Source Unknown
Source Unknown
(183 votes) 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
Chuck Daly
Basketball Coach
(181 votes) The best may slip, and even the most cautious fall; but he is more than human who errors not at all.
Pomfret
Pomfret
(180 votes) An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverbs
German Proverbs
Sayings of German Origin
(177 votes) All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett
1867-1931, British Novelist
(166 votes) 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
Carl Jung
1875-1961, Swiss Psychiatrist
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