Motivational Quotes

Mistakes

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

- Gates, Bill

Best Quotes about Mistakes

We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

Al Franken

The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top.

Brothers, Dr. Joyce

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

W. Somerset Maugham

Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Jones, Franklin P.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow -- after you have done your best to achieve success today.

Maltz, Maxwell

When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don't, you only make matters worse.

Ward Cleaver

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

Walter Bagehot

There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed

Gates, Bill

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Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

Shapira, Gina

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

Dan Quayle

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The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Hein, Piet

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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.

Meyer, Paul J.

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

West, Jessamyn

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Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

Pareto, Vilfredo

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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Battista, Orlando A.

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All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Churchill, Winston

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I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

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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

Zedong, Mao

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A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

Einstein, Albert

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Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

Van Gogh, Vincent

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It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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We're all human and we all goof. Do things that may be wrong, but do something!

Gingrich, Newt

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People who make money often make mistakes, and even have major setbacks, but they believe they will eventually prosper, and they see every setback as a lesson to be applied in their move towards success.

Gillies, Jerry

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It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

Bradshaw, John

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A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

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It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

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If I had my life to live over... I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Nadine Stair

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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.

Covey, Stephen R.

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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

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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

Dali, Salvador

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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

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There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.

Rostand, Jean

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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If I had my life to live again. I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

Therous, Phyllis

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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

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

Sophia Loren

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Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors.

Huxley, Aldous

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A clever man commits no minor blunders.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Hugh White

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To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, another is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

Link, Henry C.

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Carnegie, Dale

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No man ever achieved worth-while success who did not, at one time or other, find himself with at least one foot hanging well over the brink of failure.

Hill, Napoleon

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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.

Daumal, Rene