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1. "Most misfortunes are the results of misused time."

Napoleon Hill

Quotations about: Time and Passing

2. "The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what we want most for what we want in the moment."

Anon.

Quotations about: Happiness

3. "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

4. "Remember that failure is an event, not a person."

Zig Ziglar

5. "Winning may not be everything, but losing has little to recommend it."

Dianne Feinstein

Quotations about: Success and Fame

6. "Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."

Aesop

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

7. "Man is designed as a perfect device. However, some copies behave as if the manufacturer has forgotten to connect them with all the circuits."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Human

8. "Despair is the shortest road to disaster."

Kazimierz Matan

Quotations about: Pain and Tears -:- Optimism and Hope

9. "Life without errors is like paper without words."

Anon.

Quotations about: Life and Death

10. "The only people to profit from the mistakes of others are biographers."

Anon.

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

Anon.

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Science and Technology

14. "Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

James Joyce

Quotations about: Science and Technology

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, "Art and Antiquity"

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

16. "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"

Quotations about: Bravery and Fear

17. "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"

Quotations about: Authority, Government

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

Anita Brookner, "The Misalliance"

Quotations about: Time and Passing -:- Youth and Age

19. "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

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

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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21. "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

Quotations about: Human

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

Nikola Tesla, (attributed)

Quotations about: Human -:- Various

23. "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"

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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

Sigmund Freud

Quotations about: History and Nations

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

Dorothea Brande

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Wisdom and Stupidity

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

Agnieszka Lisak

Quotations about: Envy -:- Success and Fame

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

Josh Billings

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement -:- Sin and Conscience

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

Henry Louis Mencken

31. "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

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

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

Anon.

Quotations about: Success and Fame

33. "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

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

Henry David Thoreau

35. "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

Quotations about: Success and Fame -:- Time and Passing

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

Rainer Maria Rilke

Quotations about: Life and Death

37. "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

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

Conrad Hilton

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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

Terry Hands

Quotations about: History and Nations -:- Manners and Ethics

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

Mel Brooks

41. "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

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

Thomas Carlyle, "Heroes and Hero-Worship"

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

Benjamin Disraeli

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

44. "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"

Quotations about: Question and Problem

45. "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

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

Graham Greene

Quotations about: Success and Fame

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

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Quotations about: Woman and Man

48. "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

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity -:- Youth and Age

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

Anon.

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

Inscription on the cenotaph at Hiroshima

Quotations about: Inscriptions etc.

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