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Quotes About Mistakes

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.
~ Francis Bacon
I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.
~ TobyMac
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
~ William Arthur Ward
Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don't try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human.
~ Tony Robbins
Don't worry about mistakes. Making things out of mistakes, that's creativity.
~ Peter Max
Customers don't expect you to be perfect. They do expect you to fix things when they go wrong.
~ Don Porter
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't make them all yourself.
~ Usher
But life isn't about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It's about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Time Untime
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
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
Being an entrepreneur is simply going from one mistake to the next. You must have the fortitude to continue on.
~ Robert Kiyosaki
Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.
~ Patti Smith
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
~ Frank Herbert
Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.
~ Lou Holtz
Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
There are no evil people; there are perfectly good people who are of the track, but they do not need condemnation or punishment; they only need to get upon the rails again.
~ Wallace D. Wattles
There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people.
~ Bill Gates
Sometimes you find out what you are supposed to be doing by doing the things you are not supposed to do.
~ Oprah Winfrey
It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.
~ Norton Juster
Good deeds are seldom remembered; bad deeds are seldom forgotten.
~ Ernie J Zelinski
The value of action is that we make mistakes; mistakes show us what we need to learn.
~ Peter McWilliams
I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
~ Fiona Apple
No one is more liable to make mistakes than he who acts only on reflexion.
~ Luc de Clapiers