Quotes on Mistakes

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

Author: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Harvard makes mistakes too, you know. Kissinger taught there.

Author: Woody Allen

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot.

Author: Jeffrey Archer

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.

Author: Billie Armstrong

Nobody bats 500. We all make mistakes.

Author: Desi Arnaz

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.

Author: Fred Astaire

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

Author: Kevyn Aucoin

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

Author: Bo Bennett

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

Author: Edgar Bergen

I too have my own demons, and I have struggled. I've made my own mistakes, and I'm not proud of them.

Author: Michael Bergin

We made too many wrong mistakes.

Author: Yogi Berra

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

Author: Niels Bohr

As long as the world is turning and spinning, we're gonna be dizzy and we're gonna make mistakes.

Author: Mel Brooks

You just went right in and just recorded songs and listened them, and if there were any mistakes, then we would correct them and just went on... one take or two take.

Author: Dennis Brown

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

Author: Jerry Bruckheimer

I was a stubborn cuss, and I made some mistakes.

Author: Earl Butz

Since I was a kid, he's told me to learn from his mistakes.

Author: Scott Caan

Learn from your mistakes and build on your successes.

Author: John Calhoun

You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

Author: William Clinton

It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something.

Author: Ornette Coleman

Mistakes are the only universal form of originality.

Author: Mason Cooley

I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.

Author: Humphry Davy

When a system is stable, telling the worker about mistakes is only tampering.

Author: W. Deming

I was shaped by my mistakes.

Author: Janice Dickinson

The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

Author: Robert Downey, Jr.

I behaved poorly by starting this whole thing and I made some mistakes in dealing with it, and they made some mistakes in dealing with me, and taking down all my stuff was probably one of them.

Author: Gregg Easterbrook

He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.

Author: Tryon Edwards

Even in the best of lives, mistakes are made.

Author: Joseph Ellis

It doesn't matter if I don't succeed in something, what matters is that I learn from my mistakes.

Author: Linda Evans

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.

Author: Shelby Foote

No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.

Author: William Gladstone

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

Author: Vincent Gogh

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

Author: Lewis Grizzard

All the mistakes I ever made were when I wanted to say 'No' and said 'Yes'.

Author: Moss Hart

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.

Author: Coleman Hawkins

You learn from your mistakes.

Author: Thierry Henry

Mistakes can be good things, because it is an unexpected thing.

Author: Ken Hill

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

Author: Julio Iglesias

We didn't make no mistakes. We didn't make no mistakes.

Author: Joseph Jackson

I'd like to just be a little bit more open to making mistakes and not worrying about it so much.

Author: Joan Jett

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Author: Steve Jobs

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

Author: Billy Joel

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Author: Billy Joel

I made a lot of mistakes out of the ring, but I never made any in it.

Author: Jack Johnson

We are personalities in the making, limited, and grappling with things too high for us. Obviously we, at very best, will make many mistakes, but these mistakes need not be sins.

Author: E. Jones

But no, I don't generally have trouble with spelling mistakes.

Author: Bill Joy

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Author: Jean Kerr

Also, I plan to screw something up on every movie I do so that I can learn from my mistakes and become a better director with each project.

Author: Richard King

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.

Author: Calvin Klein

An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.

Author: Ring Lardner

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

Author: Sam Levenson

I'm an incredibly lucky girl. For someone who has made some very foolish mistakes and had some tough lessons to learn very quickly, I am still incredibly lucky.

Author: Monica Lewinsky

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.

Author: Maxwell Maltz

Mistakes in themselves are unavoidable.

Author: Ernest Mandel

One of the advantages of not having a record contract is that you can make your own mistakes, you don't need somebody else to organize them for you.

Author: Herbie Mann

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

Author: Peter McWilliams

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Author: Paul Meyer

When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast.

Author: Bode Miller

Tomorrow is always fresh, with no mistakes in it.

Author: Lucy Montgomery

We're looking as far ahead as we can, and we don't get penalized for mistakes.

Author: Larry Niven

Mistakes were made is something we heard back in '92, and that has sort of been the Clinton administration's mantra. I can't imagine that Al Gore is going to pick up that statement and carry it through the next election.

Author: Barbara Olson

And as a true athlete, mistakes haunt you forever.

Author: Jim Otto

Take risks. Ask big questions. Don't be afraid to make mistakes; if you don't make mistakes, you're not reaching far enough.

Author: David Packard

I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.

Author: John Peel

Don't be afraid in nature: one must be bold, at the risk of having been deceived and making mistakes.

Author: Camille Pissarro

I really don't know why Scarlett has such appeal. When I began writing the sequel, I had a lot of trouble because Scarlett is not my kind of person. She's virtually illiterate, has no taste, never learns from her mistakes.

Author: Alexandra Ripley

We'll do all right if we can capitalize on our mistakes.

Author: Mickey Rivers

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

Author: Darrell Royal

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

Author: Donald Rumsfeld

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Author: John Ruskin

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

Author: Jessica Savitch

Start in a small TV station so you can make all of your embarrassing mistakes early and in front of fewer people!

Author: Diane Sawyer

In a brave new world, a post-September 11 world, anyone is going to make certain mistakes. The mistakes that have been made on homeland security, on protecting our Nation from another terrorist attack, are mistakes of omission. We are simply not doing enough.

Author: Charles Schumer

I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.

Author: John Sculley

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Author: George Shaw

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

Author: Tommy Shaw

I'd rather not pinpoint my mistakes.

Author: Ally Sheedy

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

Author: Percy Shelley

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

Author: Liz Smith

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.

Author: Sydney Smith

All nations are more tolerant of their own mistakes and weaknesses than of the mistakes and weaknesses of others.

Author: Arthur Sulzberger

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

Author: Brenda Ueland

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Author: Denis Waitley

There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.

Author: Denis Waitley

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Author: Murray Walker

I don't listen to my own records a lot. Once in a while - to check out my mistakes. Because you can always see a spot or two in the record where you could have done better. So you more or less study this way.

Author: Ben Webster

I can't write about my greatest mistakes because I've slept with most of them.

Author: Arabella Weir

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Author: Jessamyn West

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

Author: Venus Williams

To find true wisdom, one must first embrace the countless mistakes along the way.

Author: Amelia Greene

In every mistake lies a lesson worth learning.

Author: Maya Johnson

Our mistakes are often gifts in disguise, nudging us towards growth and self-discovery.

Author: Sofia Nguyen

A wise man learns from his mistakes, but a wiser man learns from the mistakes of others

Author: Sophia Thompson

In every mistake lies a seed of opportunity waiting to be nurtured into growth.

Author: Rachel Brown

Wisdom is the reward gained through the journey of mistakes and growth.

Author: Serena Davis

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes; art is knowing which ones to keep.

Author: Scott Adams

Each mistake is a lesson waiting to be learned, embrace them and grow stronger.

Author: Samantha Lopez

Yesterday's mistakes can become the wisdom of tomorrow when approached with humility and growth.

Author: Sophia Rodriguez

Success is not found in doing everything right, but in learning from everything wrong.

Author: Samantha Stevens

Success is not defined by the mistakes we make, but by how we learn from them.

Author: Samantha Miller

Success is not about getting everything right, but about learning from the things that go wrong.

Author: Alexandria Johnson

Success is not about getting things right the first time, but about learning from every mistake made along the way.

Author: Emily Cole

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep

Author: Scott Adams

Life is a canvas, every mistake is a brushstroke that adds character to the masterpiece.

Author: Olivia Bennett

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, so learn from them rather than regretting them.

Author: Samantha Green

Mistakes are proof that you are trying, especially when starting something new.

Author: Harper Lee

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success, embrace them to reach new heights.

Author: Samantha Miller

Intelligence lies in learning from mistakes, wisdom in avoiding them altogether.

Author: Sophia Richards

Every challenge is an opportunity for growth, and every failure is a lesson in disguise.

Author: Sophia Morales

A wise person once said, 'Cherish your mistakes, they teach you valuable lessons.'

Author: Jasmine Lee

Wisdom is the harmony between lessons learned and mistakes forgotten.

Author: Samantha Evans

True creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes, art is knowing which ones to keep.

Author: Scott Adams

A beginner is simply a more experienced failure

Author: Maya Angelou

In every mistake there is a lesson, and in every lesson there is growth.

Author: Sara Johnson

Every mistake is a lesson in disguise, showing us the way to growth and wisdom.

Author: Sophia Stewart

The biggest mistake you can make is being too afraid to make one

Author: Jessica Johnson

Creativity is intelligence making mistakes look beautiful.

Author: Johnathan Masters

A wise man learns from his mistakes, but an even wiser man learns from the mistakes of others.

Author: John Smith

Mistakes are a stepping stone to wisdom, embrace them as opportunities for growth.

Author: Claire Lopez

The key to success is not in doing everything perfectly, but in learning and growing from our mistakes.

Author: Samantha Smith

Life is a canvas, and every mistake is just a color waiting to be added.

Author: Samantha Lee

Life's greatest lessons are often found amidst our biggest mistakes.

Author: Samantha Jones

Lose the fear of failure, for it's only through our mistakes that we pave the path to success.

Author: Vivian Anderson

The only mistake is not learning from our mistakes.

Author: Sarah Jones

Success is not built on the failures of others, but on the lessons learned from our own mistakes.

Author: Lisa Jackson

The biggest mistake you can make is to continually fear making ones.

Author: Bianca Smith

A mistake is only a mistake if you make it twice.

Author: Jane Doe

Timing is everything. Especially when it comes to accidentally sending a text to the wrong person.

Author: Sarah Johnson

Success is not about getting it right the first time, but learning from each mistake and getting it right eventually.

Author: Lisa Thompson

The one thing I did yesterday – forgive Susan Lord knob adverse indexing off course storm under

Author: William Ury

Today’s a great day to make all your mistakes. After all, even gold needed to be molded by a bit of fire!

Author: Leo Clark

Life is like a box of crayons; you need both the sharp ones for your ideas and the dull ones for rewriting your mistakes.

Author: Jamie Anderson

Success is a tapestry woven from the threads of creativity, mistakes, teamwork, and an occasional shot in the dark.

Author: Sarah McRain