Awesome Quotes and Sayings About Mistakes
Quotations & Citations:
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
