Welcome to our collection of Mistakes Quotes, where wisdom meets the lessons learned from life’s mishaps and missteps. Mistakes are an inevitable part of the human experience, serving as powerful teachers that guide us towards growth, resilience, and self-discovery. From the smallest blunders to the most significant errors, each mistake offers an opportunity for reflection and improvement.
In this compilation, we delve into the profound insights shared by thinkers, philosophers, and everyday individuals who have embraced the transformative potential of mistakes. Whether it’s overcoming setbacks, learning from failures, or finding the courage to move forward, these quotes encapsulate the essence of resilience and the beauty of embracing imperfection. Join us as we explore the wisdom that arises from acknowledging, accepting, and learning from our mistakes.
I’m human, I’m not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I’m already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids. Selena Gomez
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
It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don’t know about you, but I make plenty. You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead. Mel Gibson
It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. Jessamyn West
It’s very important that we don’t make the same mistakes twice. That’s a big part of improvement. Kirby Smart
A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. Frank Lloyd Wright
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes. Humphry Davy
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‘Did you sleep good?’ I said ‘No, I made a few mistakes.’ Steven Wright
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Jules Verne
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. Nikki Giovanni
Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from. Al Franken
Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision. Thomas Sowell
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
Mistakes do happen and life goes on. Sourav Ganguly
There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go. Richard Bach
Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything. Billie Joe Armstrong
I’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I’m out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe
There are no mistakes, only happy accidents. Bob Ross
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. Niels Bohr
The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt – and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won. Woody Hayes
No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes. William E. Gladstone
If you don’t know where you make your mistakes, that’s your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at. Meek Mill
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit. Conrad Hilton
There’s room for role models who make mistakes. Taylor Swift
The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven. Robert Downey, Jr.
Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent. Billy Graham
I know for certain that God does not make mistakes, but he does make miracles. I am one. You are, too. Nick Vujicic
The pressure of being a goalkeeper is one of those things that attracts a lot of people to the position, if you don’t have that, if you don’t enjoy that pressure, I don’t think you’re suited to playing goalkeeper. It’s about being strong mentally, being able to see the difference between making honest mistake and silly mistakes. Kasper Schmeichel
Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us. Max Verstappen
Do not fear mistakes. There are none. Miles Davis
You don’t learn from successes; you don’t learn from awards; you don’t learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that’s the truth. Jane Fonda
If you don’t learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets. John Cena
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own… Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. Robert A. Heinlein
People who don’t take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. Peter Drucker
I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I’ve definitely learned a lot. Miley Cyrus
When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think. Beyonce Knowles
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw
The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. Dale Carnegie
The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. Herbert Hoover
I’m always afraid of making mistakes. I think I was born with that. RM
I call Alibaba ‘1,001 mistakes.’ We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn’t know how we’d make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us. Jack Ma
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, then you are making new things, trying new things, learning, living, pushing yourself, changing yourself, changing your world. You’re doing things you’ve never done before, and more importantly, you’re doing something. Neil Gaiman
It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them. Lisa Madigan
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. Scott Adams
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
I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life. Tim O’Brien
There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons. Denis Waitley
You learn from your mistakes and you learn from your failures. It’s how you get up that defines you to a certain extent. Martin Brodeur
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. William Arthur Ward
Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. Billy Wilder
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. Steve Jobs
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead
If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying. Coleman Hawkins
Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins. Johan Cruyff
By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you’ve achieved – and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses – you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments. Jack Canfield
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
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
I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that’s my belief. I still don’t know what ‘Christian’ means. I’m a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness. Sherri Shepherd
In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. John Ruskin
I make mistakes growing up. I’m not perfect; I’m not a robot. Justin Bieber
The more mistakes you make, the more you learn. Ole Gunnar Solskjaer
It is in Toyota’s DNA that mistakes made once will not be repeated. Akio Toyoda
You’ve got to make tough decisions, sometimes unpopular decisions… Whatever it is, if it’s the right move at the right time, you’ve got to be also willing to make mistakes. Sean McDermott
People do make mistakes and I think they should be punished. But they should be forgiven and given the opportunity for a second chance. We are human beings. David Millar
Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Salvador Dali
Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That’s pretty much my principle. Nadia Comaneci
Experience is making mistakes and learning from them. Bill Ackman
You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store. Joel Osteen
If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes. John Wooden
We made too many wrong mistakes. Yogi Berra
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell
It’s all part of my journey – I’ve done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes. Ozzy Osbourne
If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person. It’s how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit. William J. Clinton
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts. Jim Morrison
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. Bruce Lee
I’m not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow. Lana
I’ve made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven’t lived in vain. Muhammad Ali
Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure – they can be turned into wisdom. Cat Cora
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. Swami Sivananda
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. Romain Rolland
Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible – the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family. Virginia Satir
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Marcus Tullius Cicero
People believe practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t. If you’re making a tremendous amount of mistakes, all you’re doing is deeply ingraining the same mistakes. Jillian Michaels
I’m no hero. The world knows all too well about my mistakes. But I was never meant to play the villain. Erik Prince
I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it’s how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we’re meant to be on. Jay Ellis
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. Buddha
You can be discouraged by failure, or you can learn from it. So go ahead and make mistakes, make all you can. Because, remember that’s where you’ll find success – on the far side of failure. Thomas J. Watson
It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes… we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions – especially selfish ones. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. Angelina Jolie
Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. Phyllis Theroux
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
I’ve been imitated so well I’ve heard people copy my mistakes. Jimi Hendrix
We all make mistakes. God knows I’ve made more than anyone else I know. Marco Pierre White
Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce
Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain… To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices – today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it. Kevyn Aucoin
Take risks. Ask big questions. Don’t be afraid to make mistakes; if you don’t make mistakes, you’re not reaching far enough. David Packard
We’re making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax. Chuck Palahniuk
You make mistakes, but I don’t have any regrets. I’m the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am. Kim Kardashian
People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If there’s patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights. Pete Carroll
