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

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Knight, Philip

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

Jung, Carl

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Donald Foster

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.

Hugo, Victor

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

Ford, Henry

Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.

Augsburger, David

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Einstein, Albert

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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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The better a man is the more mistakes he will make for the more things he will try.

Drucker, Peter F.

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There exists a black kingdom which the eyes of man avoid because its landscape fails signally to flatter them. This darkness, which he imagines he can dispense with in describing the light, is error with its unknown characteristics. Error is certainty's constant companion. Error is the corollary of evidence. And anything said about truth may equally well be said about error: the delusion will be no greater.

Aragon, Louis

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

Link, Henry C.

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More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.

Smith, Harold J.

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

Jones, Franklin P.

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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

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

Henry C. Link

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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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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

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A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Pope, Alexander

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It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

Garry Marshall

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

Gates, Bill

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Niels Bohr

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There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

Bennett, James Gordon

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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

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It's discouraging to make a mistake, but it's humiliating when you find out you're so unimportant that nobody noticed it.

Daly, Chuck

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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.

Fuller, Buckminster

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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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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She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Henry James

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Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.

Mayo, William James

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Mandino, Og

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I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Churchill, Winston

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I have made decisions that turned out to be wrong, and went back and did it another way, and still took less time than many who procrastinated over the original decision. Your brain is capable of handling 140, 000 million bits of information in one second, and if you take hours or days or weeks to reach a vital decision, you are short-circuiting your most valuable property.

Gillies, Jerry

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No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

Marden, Orison Swett

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A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Peter McWilliams

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Cato the Elder