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1. "Defeat may test you, but it need not stop you."
2. "Pay attention to your enemies. They are the first to discover your mistakes."
Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility
3. "Most great discoveries start with making a mistake."
Quotations about: Science and Technology
4. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery."
James Joyce
Quotations about: Science and Technology
5. "Error is to truth as sleep is to waking."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity
George Eliot, "Scenes of Clerical Life"
Quotations about: Bravery and Fear
Henry Louis Mencken, "Minority Report: H.L. Mencken`s Notebooks"
Quotations about: Authority, Government
8. "Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has."
Anita Brookner, "The Misalliance"
Quotations about: 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"
Quotations about: 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
Quotations about: Success and Fame
Georges Clemenceau
Quotations about: Human
Nikola Tesla, (attributed)
Quotations about: Human -:- Various
Pearl Buck, "What America Means to Me"
14. "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."
Paramahansa Yogananda
Quotations about: Success and Fame
15. "America is a mistake, a giant mistake."
Sigmund Freud
Quotations about: History and Nations
16. "To guarantee success, act as if it were impossible to fail."
Dorothea Brande
Quotations about: Success and Fame
17. "Nothing costs you more dearly than your own foolishness."
Agnieszka Lisak
Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity
18. "What hurts much more than own failures are someone else's successes."
Agnieszka Lisak
Quotations about: Envy -:- Success and Fame
19. "Reason often makes mistakes, but conscience never does."
Josh Billings
Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Sin and Conscience
20. "To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself."
Henry Louis Mencken
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Chinese proverb
Quotations about: Sin and Conscience
22. "If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through."
Quotations about: Success and Fame
Mary Pickford
24. "The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right."
Henry David Thoreau
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Quotations about: Success and Fame -:- Time and Passing
26. "The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things."
Rainer Maria Rilke
Quotations about: Life and Death
Salvador Dalí
Conrad Hilton
Quotations about: Success and Fame
Terry Hands
Quotations about: 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
Quotations about: 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
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity
Elias Canetti, "The Secret Heart Of The Clock"
Quotations about: 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"
Quotations about: Politics and Diplomacy
36. "Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline."
Graham Greene
Quotations about: Success and Fame
37. "Woman was God's second mistake."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Quotations about: Woman and Man
Gérard Depardieu
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity -:- Youth and Age
39. "Doctors bury their mistakes. Lawyers hang them. But journalists put theirs on the front page."
40. "Rest in peace. The mistake shall not be repeated."
Inscription on the cenotaph at Hiroshima
Quotations about: Inscriptions etc.
41. "The essence of a man is found in his faults."
Francis Picabia
Quotations about: Human
42. "The world is divided into two categories: failures and unknowns."
Francis Picabia
Quotations about: Various
43. "The only way to win is to fight on the side of your adversaries."
Francis Picabia, "Who Knows: Poems and Aphorisms"
Quotations about: Success and Fame
William Somerset Maugham, "The Summing Up"
Quotations about: Human -:- Success and Fame
Mark Twain
Quotations about: Forgiveness
46. "An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains."
Henri-Frederic Amiel, "Journal Intime"
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity
47. "It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths."
Jean Rostand, "The Substance of Man"
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity
48. "He who angers you conquers you."
Elizabeth Kenny
Quotations about: Anger
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Quotations about: Truth and Falsity
50. "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby
Quotations about: Success and Fame