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Category: Defeates and Mistakes

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1. "Defeat may test you, but it need not stop you."

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2. "Pay attention to your enemies. They are the first to discover your mistakes."

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Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

3. "Most great discoveries start with making a mistake."

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Other categories: Science and Technology

4. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce

Other categories: Science and Technology

5. "Error is to truth as sleep is to waking."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

6. "Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has pluck to fight when he's sure of losing. That's my way, sir; and there are many victories worse than a defeat."

George Eliot, "Scenes of Clerical Life"

Other categories: Bravery and Fear

7. "Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, cruel, grasping and unintelligent."

Henry Louis Mencken, "Minority Report: H.L. Mencken`s Notebooks"

Other categories: Authority, Government

8. "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."

Anita Brookner, "The Misalliance"

Other categories: Time and Passing -:- Youth and Age

9. "It is a trait of fools to perceive the faults of others but not their own."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, "Tusculanae Disputationes"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Henry Ford

Other categories: Success and Fame

11. "A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed --I well know. For it is a sign that he has tried to surpass himself."

Georges Clemenceau

Other categories: Human

12. "Our virtues and failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."

Nikola Tesla, (attributed)

Other categories: Human -:- Various

13. "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied."

Pearl Buck, "What America Means to Me"

14. "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."

Paramahansa Yogananda

Other categories: Success and Fame

15. "America is a mistake, a giant mistake."

Sigmund Freud

Other categories: History and Nations

16. "To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."

Dorothea Brande

Other categories: Success and Fame

17. "Nothing costs you more dearly than your own foolishness."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Wisdom and Stupidity

18. "What hurts much more than own failures are someone else's successes."

Agnieszka Lisak

Other categories: Envy -:- Success and Fame

19. "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."

Josh Billings

Other categories: Intellect, Judgement -:- Sin and Conscience

20. "To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."

Henry Louis Mencken

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21. "Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep."

Chinese proverb

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

22. "If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through."

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Other categories: Success and Fame

23. "You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Mary Pickford

24. "The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right."

Henry David Thoreau

25. "The day is for mistake and error, sequence of time for success and carrying out. The one who anticipates is master of the day."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Other categories: Success and Fame -:- Time and Passing

26. "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."

Rainer Maria Rilke

Other categories: Life and Death

27. "Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalise them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

Salvador Dalí

28. "Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

Conrad Hilton

Other categories: Success and Fame

29. "We may pretend that we're basically moral people who make mistakes, but the whole of history proves otherwise."

Terry Hands

Other categories: History and Nations -:- Manners and Ethics

30. "As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes."

Mel Brooks

31. "Error has made animals into men; is truth in a position to make men into animals again?"

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Other categories: Human -:- Truth and Falsity

32. "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."

Thomas Carlyle, "Heroes and Hero-Worship"

33. "What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth."

Benjamin Disraeli

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

34. "Every decision is liberating, even if it leads to disaster. Otherwise, why do so many people walk upright and with open eyes into their misfortune?"

Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"

Other categories: Question and Problem

35. "If we had had more time for discussion we should probably have made a great many more mistakes."

Leon Trotsky, "My Life"

Other categories: Politics and Diplomacy

36. "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."

Graham Greene

Other categories: Success and Fame

37. "Woman was God's second mistake."

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Other categories: Woman and Man

38. "At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings."

Gérard Depardieu

Other categories: Truth and Falsity -:- Youth and Age

39. "Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers hang them. But journalists put theirs on the front page."

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40. "Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated."

Inscription on the cenotaph at Hiroshima

Other categories: Inscriptions etc.

41. "The essence of a man is found in his faults."

Francis Picabia

Other categories: Human

42. "The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."

Francis Picabia

Other categories: Various

43. "The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries."

Francis Picabia, "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"

Other categories: Success and Fame

44. "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary, it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people cruel and bitter."

William Somerset Maugham, "The Summing Up"

Other categories: Human -:- Success and Fame

45. "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. "

Mark Twain

Other categories: Forgiveness

46. "An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."

Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

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

Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

48. "He who angers you conquers you."

Elizabeth Kenny

Other categories: Anger

49. "We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable."

Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Other categories: Truth and Falsity

50. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Bill Cosby

Other categories: Success and Fame

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