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Quotes About Mistakes

The balance between confidence and humility is best learned through extensive experience and mistakes.
~ Michael Steinhardt
Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.
~ Harvey Mackay
Having your own show, where you're not in trouble all the time, because you're kind of the boss, is a wonderful experience. If I made mistakes everyone was very nice to me.
~ Jim Jefferies
I don't overthink when I'm styling. I kind of forgive myself and accept that I will make mistakes. Getting dressed should be a fun experience!
~ Paloma Faith
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
~ Denis Waitley
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
~ John Keats
I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Experience is a valuable thing. It enables us to recognize mistakes when we repeat them.
~ Kathy Reichs
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde
In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.
~ Martin Amis
The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.
~ Robert Breault
In my experience, good executives don't make mistakes.
~ Ray Kroc
We must not be timid from a fear of committing faults: the greatest fault of all is to deprive oneself of experience.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
~ Sophia Amoruso
We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
~ Adrian Grenier
It takes sixty-five thousand errors before you are qualified to make a rocket.
~ Wernher von Braun
The only way you learn is by failure.
~ Debbie Reynolds
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward
~ Thomas A. Edison
Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all.
~ Charles Babbage
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, Antigone
People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.
~ John Harvey-Jones
The person who failed often knows how to avoid future failures. The person who knows only success can be more oblivious to all the pitfalls.
~ Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture