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Quotes About Mistakes

It is not the destiny of Black America to repeat white America's mistakes. But we will, if we mistake the trappings of success in a sick society for the signs of a meaningful life.
~ Audre Lorde
I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.
~ Derek Jeter
Failure is in a sense the highway to success, as each discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true.
~ John Keats
99 percent of success is built on failure.
~ Charles Kettering
Take risks and you'll get the payoffs. Learn from your mistakes until you succeed.
~ Bobby Flay
Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.
~ Michael Dell
I remember my mistakes more than my success.
~ Adrian Peterson
My own success was attended by quite a few failures along the way. But I refused to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.
~ Kemmons Wilson
Show me a person who never made a mistake, and I will show you a person who never did anything.
~ William Rosenberg
Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.
~ James Anthony Froude
I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
~ Jack Welch
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
~ George Bernard Shaw
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
~ Thomas Huxley
We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress.
~ Bryant McGill
Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.
~ Tony Robbins
Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.
~ Confucius
You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.
~ R. Buckminster Fuller
Mistakes are good, successes are great, and idleness is a sin.
~ Mike Michalowicz
It's important to learn from your mistakes, but it is BETTER to learn from other people's mistakes, and it is BEST to learn from other people's successes. It accelerates your own success.
~ Jim Rohn
Whatever sport you're looking at, it's usually the team that makes the least mistakes that has the most success.
~ Joe Torre
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
Success has ruined many a man.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
~ Friedrich August von Hayek