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

Gingrich, Newt

A man who cannot make mistakes cannot do anything.

Magazine, Bernard

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

Burnett, Leo

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

Bennett, James Gordon

Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.

The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed, most successful men fail time and time again, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success.

Korda, Michael

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

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

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

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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

Stair, Nadine

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Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Confucius

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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

Pareto, Vilfredo

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

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

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It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.

Rumsfeld, Donald

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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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Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

Peter McWilliams

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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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I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Sculley, John

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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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

Elbert Hubbard

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Error is a supposition that pleasure and pain, that intelligence, substance, life, are existent in matter. Error is neither Mind nor one of Mind's faculties. Error is the contradiction of Truth. Error is a belief without understanding. Error is unreal because untrue. It is that which stemma to be and is not. If error were true, its truth would be error, and we should have a self-evident absurdity --namely, erroneous truth. Thus we should continue to lose the standard of Truth.

Eddy, Mary Baker

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The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake...

Boswell, Nelson

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

Battista, Orlando A.

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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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To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

Larson, Doug

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

Davy, Sir Humphrey

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Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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There is no original truth, only original error.

Bachelard, Gaston

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Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

Soros, George

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To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.

Jenkins, Josh

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

Carnegie, Dale

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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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Don't be afraid to make a mistake. But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice.

Morita, Akio

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

Gates, Bill

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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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Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

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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