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

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

Stair, Nadine

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

Gingrich, Newt

Do not fear mistakes -- there are none.

Davis, Miles

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

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

Drucker, Peter F.

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

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

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

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

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

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A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

Joyce, James

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

Walter Bagehot

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Mistakes are stepping stones to success.

Popplestone, Charles E.

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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

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The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.

Nicolaides, Kimon

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The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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

Sophia Loren

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When I reflect, as I frequently do, upon the felicity I have enjoyed, I sometimes say to myself, that were the offer made me, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask, should be the privilege of an author, to correct in a second edition, certain errors of the first.

Franklin, Benjamin

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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

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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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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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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

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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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We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

Thomas, Lewis

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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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It is not easy, but you have to be willing to make mistakes. And the earlier you make those mistakes, the better.

Pfeiffer, Jane Cahill

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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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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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People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

King, Florence

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

Channing, William Ellery

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I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

Darwin, Charles R.

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Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.

Bankhead, Tallulah

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It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself.

Rickover, Hyman G.

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A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Oppenheimer, Julius Robert

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You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Waitley, Denis

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

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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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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.

Proverb, German

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

Smith, Harold J.

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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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No man fails who does his best...

Marden, Orison Swett

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We can afford almost any mistake once.

Lehr, Lewis

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We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.

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

Fuller, Buckminster