Quotes about mistakes

Be aware that young people have to be able to make their own mistakes and that times change.

— Gina Shapira

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

— George Bernard Shaw

We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

— Samuel Smiles

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

— Samuel Smiles

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

— Harold J. Smith

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.

— George Soros

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

— Nadine Stair

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

— Igor Stravinsky

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

— Jonathan Swift

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

— Publilius Syrus

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

— Jeremy Taylor

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

— Phyllis Therous

We are built to make mistakes, coded for error.

— Lewis Thomas

The broadest and most prevalent error requires the most disinterested virtue to sustain it.

— Henry David Thoreau

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can never live long enough to make them all yourself.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.

— Source Unknown

Learn from your parents mistakes -- use birth control.

— Source Unknown

It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

— Source Unknown

A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

— Source Unknown

A mistake at least proves that somebody stopped talking long enough to DO something.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

MISTAKES are the stepping stones that lead to future accomplishments.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Make the mistakes of yesterday your lessons for today.

— Source Unknown

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

— Source Unknown

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

— Vincent Van Gogh

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.

— Denis Waitley

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

— Denis Waitley

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

— Denis Waitley

Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.

— H. L. Wayland

It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes, it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

— Jessamyn West

Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

— Oscar Wilde

Life would be dull without them.

— Oscar Wilde

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

— John Wooden

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

— Mao Zedong

This is a hard and precarious world, where every mistake and infirmity must be paid in full.

— Clarence Day

Learn from the mistakes of others, you can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

We was all made to make mistakes. Why you think they made pencils with erasers...It is not the mistake its the correction! Push

— BPBEE

There are two mistakes, one comes from the heart, the harder comes from the mind.

— Tadj Abelkader

There are two mistakes, one comes from the heart the harder comes from the mind.

— Tadj Abelkader

God did not like the idea of mistakes, and so He created variety.

— Leslie Miklosy

Broken mistakes are often the seed of hard-headedness;people whose favorite word is- Yes..:-

— Source Unknown

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

— Pearl S. Buck

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.

— Carl Jung

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

— Henri Frederic Amiel