Quotes About Making Mistakes

Be inspired by these quotes about making mistakes. Let these words of wisdom help you look at mistakes in a different way.

"The man who makes no mistakes
does not usually make anything."
Edward J. Phelps

"Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does
nothing because he could only do a little."
Edmund Burke

"If it fails, admit it frankly and try another.
But above all, try something."
Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Trying to grow up is hurting, you know.
You make mistakes.
You try to learn from them,
and when you don't, it hurts even more."
Aretha Franklin

"Mistakes are a fact of life.
It is the response to error that counts."
Nikki Giovanni

"It's okay to make mistakes.
Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn."
John Bradshaw

"The greatest mistake a man can ever make
is to be afraid of making one."
Elbert Hubbard

"So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can.
Because that's where you will find success.
On the far side of failure."
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.

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

"There are no mistakes, no coincidence.
All events are blessings given to us to learn from."
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross




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more quotations, sayings and proverbs about mistakes.....
"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
Johnny Cash

"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

"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