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

Francis Picabia

Quotations about: Human

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

Francis Picabia

Quotations about: Various

3. "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

4. "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"

Quotations about: Human -:- Success and Fame

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

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Forgiveness

6. "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

7. "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

8. "He who angers you conquers you."

Elizabeth Kenny

Quotations about: Anger

9. "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

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

10. "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

11. "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

Franklin P. Jones

12. "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."

Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"

Quotations about: Education

13. "Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others."

Jules Renard

Quotations about: Envy -:- Success and Fame

14. "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."

Anon.

Quotations about: Science and Technology

15. "Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Victoria Holt

Quotations about: Sorrow and Nostalgia

16. "Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

Sophia Loren

Quotations about: Life and Death

17. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes."

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Freedom and Servitude

18. "A man's ruin lies in his tongue."

Egyptian proverb

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

19. "The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail."

Napoleon Hill

20. "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."

Quentin Crisp

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21. "Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes."

John C. Calhoun

Quotations about: Success and Fame

22. "When you lose, don't lose the lesson."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Quotations about: Education

23. "Success is getting up just one more time than you fall down."

Anon.

Quotations about: Success and Fame

24. "Disappointments are to the soul what a thunderstorm is to the air."

Friedrich von Schiller

25. "The biggest mistake is believing there is one right way to listen, to talk, to have a conversation - or a relationship."

Deborah Tannen

Quotations about: Egoism

26. "There were grammatical errors even in his silence."

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Quotations about: Oration and Silence

27. "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."

Niels Bohr

Quotations about: Science and Technology

28. "My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure."

Ashleigh Brilliant

Quotations about: Success and Fame

29. "Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny."

Kin Hubbard

Quotations about: Destiny and Fate

30. "Dare to err and to dream. Deep meaning often lies in childish plays."

Friedrich von Schiller

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

31. "Failure is success if we learn from it."

Malcolm Forbes

Quotations about: Success and Fame

32. "It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors."

Peter Mere Latham

Quotations about: Truth and Falsity

33. "It is not sufficient that I succeed - all others must fail."

Genghis Khan

Quotations about: Success and Fame

34. "All men make mistakes but married men find out about them sooner."

Red Skelton

Quotations about: Marriage

35. "Error is the price we pay for progress."

Alfred North Whitehead

Quotations about: Knowledge, Ignorance

36. "The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain."

Colin Wilson

Quotations about: Human

37. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time."

George Bernard Shaw

Quotations about: Success and Fame

38. "Failure is nature's plan to prepare you for great responsibilities."

Napoleon Hill

39. "Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed."

Henry S. Haskings

40. "The weak have one weapon: the errors of those who think they are strong."

Georges Bidault

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

41. "Be nice to people on the way up because you'll meet them on the way down."

Wilson Mizner

Quotations about: Success and Fame

42. "A farmer learns more from a bad harvest than a good one."

Dutch proverb

Quotations about: Education

43. "Failure is the only opportunity to begin more intelligently."

Henry Ford

Quotations about: Intellect, Judgement

44. "Don't find fault, find a remedy."

Henry Ford

45. "The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."

George Orwell, "Shooting an Elephant"

Quotations about: Peace and War

46. "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising."

Cyril Connolly, "Enemies of Promise"

47. "It's not a bug, it's an undocumented feature."

Anon.

Quotations about: Science and Technology

48. "Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in."

Gustave Flaubert

49. "There are some defeats more triumphant than victories."

Michel de Montaigne

Quotations about: Peace and War

50. "There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."

George Eliot, "Daniel Deronda"

Quotations about: Memory

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