Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Mistakes.
He has not a single redeeming defect.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Some faults are so closely allied to qualities that it is difficult to weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed
Bill Gates
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Russell Lynes
I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/stanfordtoday/ed/9809/9809fea101.shtml
Tobias Wolff, interview with Sta
Lord, deliver me from the person who never makes a mistake, and also from the person who makes the same mistake twice.
William James Mayo
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without one.
Chinese Proverb
MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.
Source Unknown
Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.
There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.
Things could be worse. Suppose your errors were counted and published every day, like those of a baseball player.
It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.
We don't make mistakes, we only have happy accidents.
A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.
A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale
I may have faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
Jimmy Hoffa
I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
Oliver Cromwell
An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando A. Battista
