Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. Clinton

There's nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with encores.

William J. Clinton

On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence. But I can't blame [the Republicans]. This wasn't something they forced me into. I really believed that given the level of oversight of banks and their ability to have more patient capital, if you made it possible for [banks] to go into the investment banking business as continental European investment banks could always do, that it might give us a more stable source of long-term investment.

Will Cuppy

Galvani was mistaken about the amount of electricity in frogs, but he had some good ideas, too, for the galvanometer is named in his honor, and you don't have galvanometers named after you merely for making a mistake about a frog.

Will Cuppy

We all make mistakes, but intelligence enables us to do it on purpose.

Will Ferrell

There’s a benefit to losing, you get to learn from your mistakes.

Sarah Rees Brennan

The Lynburns built this town on their blood and bones." "That was their first mistake," Jared said. "They should've built a city on rock and roll.

Sara Zarr

don’t mistake a new place for a new you.

Sara Blakely

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

Sara Bareilles

I'm starting to believe in the power of a name. Because it can't be a mistake if I just call it 'change.'

Sara Bareilles

It'd be a shame to stop now that I've started to make really good mistakes

William Ellery Channing

Mistakes and errors are the discipline through which we advance.

William Faulkner

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.

William Faulkner

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him.

Willem Dafoe

I think, as I've gotten older, I've been able to be more reckless with my choices, because practically speaking, you get less careful. Your choices become more instinctive, and you feel like if you make a mistake, it won't destroy you.

Wietse Venema

When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.

Warren G. Bennis

The learning person looks forward to failure or mistakes. The worst problem in leadership is basically early success.

Ronald Reagan

Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right.

Ronald Reagan

When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident.

Saint Augustine

We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.

Saint Francis de Sales

Have patience with all things - but first with yourself. Never confuse your mistakes with your value as a human being. You are perfectly valuable, creative, worthwhile person simply because you exist. And no amount of triumphs or tribulations can ever change that.

Venus Williams

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

Vandana Shiva

It is time to learn from the mistakes of monocultures of the mind and the essentialising violence of reductionist thought. It is time to turn to diversity for healing.

Vanessa Kerry

There has to be room for people to make mistakes and lead their own lives.

Vanessa Hudgens

I am human like everyone else. I am aware that there are people who look up to me. When mistakes are made, they aren't intentional, and I constantly push myself to be a better person.

Vance Havner

I wouldn't cross the street to hear Ingersoll preach on the mistakes of Moses, but I'd love to hear Moses preach on the mistakes of Ingersoll!

Richard Dawkins

There may be some deep questions about the cosmos that are forever beyond science. The mistake is to think they are therefore not beyond religion too.

Robin Williams

All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful.

Robin Williams

If you want to die, don't make a mistake and not quite kill yourself because the medical bills in America are hideous.

Robin Williams

Even mistakes can be wonderful

Robin G. Collingwood

To regard such a positive mental science [psychology] as rising above the sphere of history, and establishing the permanent and unchanging laws of human nature, is therefore possible only to a person who mistakes the transient conditions of a certain historical age for the permanent conditions of human life.

Robin Hobb

As I apologized to her a flicker of panic raced through me and then faded away. There wasn't enough life left in me to panic. I'd made a mistake and I was dying. Apparently not even a Speck afterlife was available to me. I'd simply stop being. Apparently I hadn't died correctly. Oops.

Robin Hobb

Perhaps having the courage to find a better path is having the courage to risk making new mistakes.

Robert Winston

I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.