Quotes About Mistakes

Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Mistakes

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Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

~Albert Einstein

 

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

~Elbert Hubbard, The Note Book

 Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them

 

 

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

~Sophia Loren

 

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

~Ornette Coleman

 

Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

~L.M. Montgomery

 

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

~John Peel

 

Never say, “oops.” Always say, “Ah, interesting.”

~Author Unknown

 

be not ashamed of mistakes and this make them crimes

 

If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake.

~F. Wikzek

 

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

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

~Henry C. Link

 

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

~Niels Bohr

 

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying… that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

~Alexander Pope

 

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

~Paulo Coelho, Brida

 

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

 

That’s not serious, it’s just human.

~Jerry Kopke

 

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

~John Powell

 

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

~Napoléon Bonaparte

 

The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.

~Edward Phelps

 

Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.

~Weston H. Agor

 

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

 

Doing one fool thing after another is not so terrible when you consider the human proclivity to do several fool things at once.

~Robert Brault

 

If a mistake is not a stepping stone, it is a mistake.

~Eli Siegel

 

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

~Salvador Dalí

 

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.

~Henry David Thoreau

 

You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.

~Colette

 

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

 

Unto those Three Things which the Ancients held impossible, there should be added this Fourth, to find a Book Printed without erratas.

~Alfonso de Cartagena

 

To err is human, to forgive, divine.

~Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

 

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.

~Mel Brooks

 

Our blunders mostly come from letting our wishes interpret our duties.

~Author Unknown

 

 Two wrongs don't make a right, but they make a good excuse.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

~L.M. Montgomery, Anne of Avonlea

 

When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!

~Jack Nicholson in The Witches of Eastwick

 

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

~Author Unknown

 

Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.

~Henry S. Haskins

 

A life is like a garden.  Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.

We learn from failure, not from success!

~Bram Stoker, Dracula

 

Error is a hardy plant; it flourishes in every soil.

~Martin F. Tupper

 

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, make amends immediately. It’s easier to eat crow while it’s still warm.

~Dan Heist

 

Making a different mistake every day is not only acceptable, it is the definition of progress.

~Robert Brault

 

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

~Mahatma Gandhi

 

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

~Phyllis Theroux, Night Lights

 

You are a master of the words you don't say and a slave to the ones you do.

 

The essence of success is that it is never necessary to think of a new idea oneself. It is far better to wait until somebody else does it, and then to copy him in every detail, except his mistakes.

~Aubrey Menen

 

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes.

~Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

If you shut your door to all errors truth will be shut out.

~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

 

A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.

~James Joyce, Ulysses

 

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

~Rita Mae Brown, Alma Mater

 

Just because you make mistakes doesn’t mean you are one.

~Author Unknown

 

Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion.

~Francis Bacon

 

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give

 

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

~Andrew V. Mason

 

Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.

~Brandon Mull, Fablehaven

 

Errors to be dangerous must have a great deal of truth mingled with them. It is only from this alliance that they can ever obtain an extensive circulation.

~Sydney Smith

 

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.

~Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars

 

In the game of life it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.

~Bill Vaughan

 

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

~Syrus

 

It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

~Jessamyn West