Quotes About Making Mistakes

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“We do wrong. It's not bad but making mistakes if we don't realize it that's called bad or the baddest of all ... what we learn from our mistakes that's important ...”

— Debolina Bhawal

“I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.”

— Shelby Foote

“Betrayals that make your soul scream so loud you wonder why no one else hears it. In the end, we are all alone in that private hell. But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting the past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. Yes, people disappoint us all the time. But the harshest lessons come when we disappoint ourselves. When we put our trust and our hearts into the hands of the wrong person and they do us wrong. And while we may hate them for what they did, the one we hate most is ourself for allowing them into our private circle. How could I have been so stupid? How could I let them deceive me?”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

“Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.”

— Alexander McQueen

“I think it's important for scientists to be a bit less arrogant, a bit more humble, recognising we are capable of making mistakes and being fallacious - which is increasingly serious in a society where our work may have unpredictable consequences.”

— Robert Winston

“I taught myself how to play the guitar, so I basically learned by a system of making mistakes.”

— Richie Sambora

“I have so many regrets. I don't believe anyone who says they don't. How can you live life making mistakes and never wish you could take one back?”

— Krista Ritchie

“Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.”

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

“It is man who has introduced a little grace, beauty, unknown charm and mystery into creation by singing about it, interpreting it, by admiring it as a poet, idealizing it as an artist and by explaining it through science, doubtless making mistakes, but finding ingenious reasons, hidden grace and beauty, unknown charm and mystery in the various phenomena of Nature. God created only coarse beings, full of the germs of disease, who, after a few years of bestial enjoyment, grow old and infirm, with all the ugliness and all the want of power of human decrepitude.”

— Guy De Maupassant

“I think making mistakes is as inevitable as receiving disappointments.”

— Loretta Young

“If you're cooking and not making mistakes, you're not playing outside your safety zone. I don't expect it all to be good. I have fat dogs because I scrap that stuff out the back door.”

— Guy Fieri

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect - I guess that's where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who's there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

— Jodi Picoult

“Experience is making mistakes and learning from them.”

— Bill Ackman

“I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.”

— Bre Pettis

“Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct them, it gives us an opportunity to become better people.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

“I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.”

— Neil Gaiman

“I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they're making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.”

— Jason Katims

“Making distinctions is part of learning. So is making mistakes.”

— Nancy Gibbs

“It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.”

— Donald Rumsfeld

“Part of being young is making mistakes.”

— Nikki Reed

“For me, style is about how you feel that day and what inspires you, as well as taking chances and making mistakes. Everything has to be comfortable. If things are too tight or too constricting, I feel out of my element.”

— Dree Hemingway

“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

“The margin for making mistakes has gotten much smaller. In a commodity economy, it's hard to kill off your business. You still have the mine. You still have oil wells. You can always rebuild. In a knowledge economy, if you make a mistake, you're in trouble.”

— Juan Enriquez

“There's one good thing about making mistakes.' Thea turned to her with a smile. 'You learn not to make them again.”

— Amanda Hocking

“You have to change your life for yourself, and it's about the fun of getting there - sitting in the tour van, breaking down on the side of the road, you know, having a laugh with the guys in the band, making mistakes with nobody watching.”

— Imelda May

“One of the great things about education is that it should stop you making mistakes - and I have made a lot of mistakes.”

— Peter Hook

“Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.”

— Salman Rushdie

“If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

“Aren't you going to tell me I'm not so bad? she asked.
Mmm-no. I was thinking how every man loves a hot girl with a history of making mistakes. Because it's always possible she'll make one with you.”

— Joe Hill

“Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.”

— Dave Ramsey

“As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must realize that not every action will be perfect. Not every action will produce the desired result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it right.”

— Jack Canfield

“When all actions are used for feedback, the consequence of making mistakes will be a corrective and appropriate response, because everything everybody does matters ... The more selective you are in the feedback you accept, the more insane your reasoning will become as you will necessarily reject corrective feedback that would have led to better reasoning.”

— Erik Naggum

“The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.”

— Robert Farrar Capon

“The cost of procrastination is generally far greater than the cost of making mistakes.”

— Robert Ringer

“I do not believe in public shaming. I do believe that young adults go to college to learn things, and that this process will almost inevitably result in their making mistakes and misjudgments and otherwise acting badly.”

— Gene Weingarten

“If I have something to apologize, I want to be the first one to step up and make that apology. I don't want anyone to broker it for me. I don't want anyone to take the hit for me. If I have anything to apologize for, I'm only human. I'm prone to making mistakes.”

— Michelle Shocked

“If you are not making mistakes, you are not trying hard enough.”

— Vince Lombardi

“Making mistakes doesn't mean that what you did was a failure, or the wrong take. It was just a 'mis-take.' You need to go back and do another take. In each take there is a lesson.”

— Wally Amos

“When private industry makes a mistake, it gets corrected and goes away. As governments make mistakes, it gets bigger, bigger and bigger and they make more, more and more because as they run out of money, they just ask for more and so they get rewarded for making mistakes. In the meantime that is exactly what we are doing by subsidizing companies which are failing, we have a reverse Darwinism, we've got survival of the unfittest, the companies and people that have made terrible mistakes are being rewarded and other people are being punished and being taxed.”

— Peter Schiff

“There's just so much negative media surrounding professional athletes or sports in general, whether it's kids that are pressured too much or professional athletes making mistakes that influence their family.”

— Kristopher Belman

“I think imperfections are important, just as mistakes are important. You only get to be good by making mistakes, and you only get to be real by being imperfect.”

— Julianne Moore

“If things aren't breaking, then you're not moving fast enough. People learn by making mistakes.”

— Mark Zuckerberg

“The soul sins therefore because, while aiming at good, it makes mistakes about the good, because it is not primary essence. And we see many things done by the Gods to prevent it from making mistakes and to heal it when it has made them. Arts and sciences, curses and prayers, sacrifices and initiations, laws and constitutions, judgments and punishments, all came into existence for the sake of preventing souls from sinning; and when they are gone forth from the body, Gods and spirits of purification cleanse them of their sins.”

— Sallust

“When we have money, we start making mistakes.”

— Jack Ma

“You allow a horse to make mistakes, the horse will learn from mistakes no different than the human. But you can't get him to where he dreads making mistakes for fear of what's going to happen after he does.”

— Buck Brannaman

“To be an innovator, you can't be worried about making mistakes.”

— Julius Erving

“Protect your reputation. Don't be afraid of making mistakes.”

— Richard Branson

“One of the great things about being willing to try new things and make mistakes is that making mistakes keeps you humble. People who are humble learn more than people who are arrogant.”

— Robert Kiyosaki