61 Quotes About Mistakes (Inspiration and Uplifting Help When You Need It)
In this post I’d like to share a collection of quotes about mistakes.
Because sometimes making mistakes is a natural part of a life well-lived. It’s OK to make them (despite what you may have heard from some people).
And because it is so important to have a healthy perspective on mistakes so that you can use them to your advantage and bounce back from a setback (and regain your self-confidence).
I hope you’ll find something motivating and helpful here.
And if you need something more when you’re in a tough situation then have a look at this post filled with quotes on self care.
61 Inspiring Quotes about Mistakes
“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”
Albert Einstein
“You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you.”
Maxwell Maltz
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Henry Ford
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.”
Elbert Hubbard
“No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you’re still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying.”
Tony Robbins
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
Sophocles
“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
“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
“What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning – and some of them many times over – what do you find? That you can swim?
Well – life is just the same as learning to swim!
Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!”
Alfred Adler
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
“It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.”
Winston Churchill
“Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.”
Oscar Wilde
“Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”
Eckhart Tolle
“The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it.”
Stephen Covey
“Thinking too much just brings it back to me, me, me—but thanking takes my eyes off myself and my mistakes and puts them on others, on things bigger than myself. I can’t stand here very long without being humbled at how small I am and amazed at how big and beautiful our world is.”
Elizabeth Musser
“The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.”
Robert T. Kiyosaki
“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”
Conrad Hilton
“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future.”
Steve Maraboli
“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
“It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.”
Colin Powell
“A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.”
Douglas Adams
“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”
George Bernard Shaw
“You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things.”
Ken Kesey
“When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don’t repeat it.”
Paul Bear Bryant
“Sometimes you don’t realize your own strength until you come face to face with your greatest weakness.”
Susan Gale
“It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we’re wrong is courage, not weakness.”
Roy T. Bennett
“The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Life is very interesting. In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
Drew Barrymore
“If you want to grow, you need to get over any fear you have of making mistakes.”
John C. Maxwell
“Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.”
Sarah Dessen
“Learn from other people’s mistakes.”
Tai Lopez
“The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.”
Meister Eckhart
“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”
Rita Mae Brown
“All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”
Walt Disney
“All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.”
Winston Churchill
”Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.”
Richard Branson
“A man may fail many times but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.”
John Burroughs
“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.”
James Joyce
“Part of being a man is learning to take responsibility for your successes and for your failures. You can’t go blaming others or being jealous. Seeing somebody else’s success as your failure is a cancerous way to live.”
Kevin Bacon
“It’s not how we make mistakes, but how we correct them that defines us.”
Rachel Wolchin
“I’ve come to believe that all my past failure and frustrations were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.”
Anthony Robbins
“Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
Chinese Proverb
“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
J.K. Rowling
“Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.”
John Wooden
“If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness. If you so choose, every frustration can help you to be more patient and more persistent.”
Ralph Marston
“There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.”
Denis Waitley
“Your best teacher is your last mistake.”
Ralph Nader
“One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.”
Samuel Johnson
“Most great people have attained their greatest success one step beyond their greatest failure.”
Napoleon Hill
“Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.”
Marie Curie
“Inside of a ring or out, ain’t nothing wrong with going down. It’s staying down that’s wrong.”
Muhammad Ali
“Don’t think in the morning. That’s a big mistake that people make. They wake up in the morning and they start thinking. Don’t think. Just execute the plan. The plan is the alarm clock goes off, you get up, you go work out. Get some.”
Jocko Willink
“Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I’ll show you someone who has overcome adversity.”
Lou Holtz
“Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly.
So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Make glorious amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody has ever made before. Do not freeze, do not stop, do not worry. Whatever you are scared of doing, do it.”
Neil Gaiman
“There is no sense in punishing your future for the mistakes of your past. Forgive yourself, grow from it, and then let it go.”
Melanie Koulouris
“Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.”
Leo Buscaglia
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