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Quotes About Mistakes

I think you learn more from your failures than your successes.
~ Andi Dorfman
Expect to make some mistakes when you try new and different approaches. Sometimes colossal failures lead to spectacular successes.
~ Harvey Mackay
I somewhat joke that I know an awful lot because I learn from my mistakes. I just make a lot of mistakes. It's OK to fail in science just as long as you have the successes to go with the failures.
~ Craig Venter
Trust yourself so that the mistakes you make are the ones you've made and not something you've made because you were afraid to do what you wanted to do. Own your mistakes, then you can own your successes.
~ Jennifer Lynch
My life is full of way more mistakes than successes.
~ Vinod Khosla
There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.
~ Amy Tan
Investing is not nearly as difficult as it looks. Successful investing involves doing a few things right and avoiding serious mistakes.
~ John C. Bogle
When I was new, I didn't know where my career will go. Initially, my films were not even successful, but then I learned a lot from my mistakes.
~ Aamir Khan
Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.
~ Conrad Hilton
One of the greatest struggles of bureaucracies is they get built and created, but they design themselves in such a way that they can never be at fault. They can never be wrong, they can never have made a mistake and they never want to relent.
~ Josh Barnett
History provides neither compensation for suffering nor penalties for wrong.
~ John Dalberg-Acton
A new principle cannot be put into effect without bringing with it new mistakes. But we may, however, be convinced that the laws of life - to which belongs the law that suffering follows the misuse of freedom - will finally be able to bring everything within its right limits.
~ Ellen Key
I make a lot of mistakes. One time I mixed dark blue and black in a suit.
~ Ricky Rubio
I was young and I didn't know much at that time and ended up choosing characters which were not suitable for me. Now, I know what type of roles suit me.
~ Nithiin
His name is Michael Jackson, not Super Michael Jackson. He makes mistakes just like all of us.
~ Heavy D
The biggest thing, I think, is to stay healthy and make the fewest mistakes, and then you can win... The margin of error is so small in the NFL, so if you can do those two things - keep your team healthy and make the fewest mistakes each Sunday - you have a good chance of going to the Super Bowl.
~ Hugh Douglas
Even on days when fate wishes to bestow boundless gifts on them, most people make mistakes in accepting: they don't accept straightforwardly and consequently lose something while doing so, they take with a secondary purpose in mind, or they accept what is given to them as if they were being compensated for something else.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
While they mean to please each other, they touch each other only impatiently and in a dominating manner. And in the effort to escape from the intolerable and unbearable condition of their confusion, they commit the greatest mistake that can be made within a relationship: they become impatient.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
All the mistakes I make arise from forsaking my own station and trying to see the object from another person's point of view.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truths will harmonize; and as for the falsities and mistakes, they will speedily die of themselves.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we can keep ourselves from interfering with the natural laws of life, mistakes can be our child's finest teachers.
~ Randy Alcorn
You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
~ Ray Bradbury
And a lot of it will be wrong, but just enough of it will be right.
~ Ray Bradbury
I know, i know. You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was younger I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the times I was fort my blunt instrument has been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hid your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.
~ Ray Bradbury