Quotes About Mistakes

"The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice."
Theodore Roosevelt

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success; we often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never make a mistake never made a discovery."
Samuel Smiles

"A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
George Bernard Shaw

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

"Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
Goethe

"To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing."
Elbert Hubbard

"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."
Benjamin Disraeli

"There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth -- not going all the way, and not starting."
Buddha

"To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people."
Haki Madhubuti

"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it."
O. A. Battista

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."
Sam Levenson

"I have made mistakes, but I never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one."
James Gordon Bennett

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."
Mary Tyler Moore

"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes."
Winston Churchill

"We have to keep trying things we're not sure we can pull off. If we just do the things we know we can do... you don't grow as much. You gotta take those chances on making those big mistakes."
Cybill Shepherd