Mistakes Quotes

... one flaw throws the loveliness of [everything else] into focus. I remember reading that Shakers deliberately introduced a mistake into the things they made, to show that man shouldn't aspire to the perfection of God. Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

~ Gretchen Rubin

Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God’s creations really serving God – or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?

~ Suzy Kassem

We learn from failure, not from success!

~ Bram Stoker

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

~ Oscar Wilde

But what if I make a mistake?' Will asked.Gilan threw back his head and laughed. 'A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You'll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you'll make mistakes. Just don't make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don't try to hide it. Don't try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.

~ John Flanagan

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.

~ William Jordan

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

~ John Dewey

You see, the best thing about wrong decisions is that they don’t prevent you from making the right decisions later on. It’s harder, but it’s not impossible.

~ Siobhan Vivian

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

~ Plutarch

Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.

~ T.f. Hodge

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

~ Criss Jami

Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them. HS/el

~ Evinda Lepins

When you are in his sort of business - now my business - you are not defined by who you are but who you are not.

~ Anthony Horowitz

I'm the girl that goes backwards, takes wrong turns, stumbles in the dark. I'm also the girl that finds gold where others feared to stray. Perhaps because I follow my heart instead of sage advice thrown my way. I don't want to become numb by always playing it safe. Many of our most cherished times happen when we shatter the damn box, step off the safety zone and listen to the sound of our soul.

~ Melody Lee

Mistakes focus our minds on specific details. They weed out truths and afford us goals, bringing straight to our attention lessons to be learned. Mistakes are not meant to make us failures; they are meant to make us wise.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Civilized are not those who never make mistakes – civilized are those who learn from their mistakes instead of trying to justify them.

~ Abhijit Naskar

If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Embrace being perfectly imperfect. Learn from your mistakes and forgive yourself, you’ll be happier.

~ Roy Bennett

Learn from your history, but don’t live in it.

~ Steve Maraboli

i am anearthquake& dancemost heavilyupon all myfaults.

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

Yes I value strong friendships on a very deep level, I value these connections because time and time again i will go through heartbreak, I will forget my self worth, I will make mistakes and my world will feel broken beyond repair and to have these special people in your life that will be there to help you pick up the pieces and remind you what makes you special and worth being alive is the most amazing feeling in the world and I would never trade that for anything.

~ John Maiorana (Oohgiovanni)

When you learn from the past, you're liberated from it.

~ Tim Fargo

He believed in himself, believed in his quixotic ambition, letting the failures of the previous day disappear as each new day dawned. Yesterday was not today. The past did not predict the future if he could learn from his mistakes.

~ Daniel Wallace

I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.

~ Jennifer Elisabeth

For this reason, it is well said that misfortune is sometimes good for something, for it teaches at the same time that it hurts.

~ Christine De Pizan

We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.

~ Jennifer Donnelly

I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.

~ Seth Adam Smith

When you make mistakes-not IF, Fireheart, WHEN- I'll tell you all about them.

~ Cinderpelt

Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves.

~ Mufti Ismail Menk

This I would wish, that there was no time or sleep. No more past, or future, and everything we did was good the first time, for the day. Without the need of looking back to learn from the past, and no future to hope for the better. No more tiredness, or having a need to dream, and no nightmares to fear. If there was a second time, this is how I would like to start over.

~ Anthony Liccione

Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Make mistakes, a thousand of them because we are only humans.Never repeat your mistakes because we are humans.

~ Akash Lakhotia

The mistakes of the world are warning message for you.

~ Amit Kalantri

If people confess to you their mistakes; Give them a chance, Because you really need those who have learnt what is right.

~ Mohith Agadi

If people call your work perceptible, be it in positive or negative terms, do ask them about what made them draw that conclusion.

~ Mohith Agadi

Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.

~ Mandy Hale

When you start living the life of your dreams, there will always be obstacles, doubters, mistakes and setbacks along the way. But with hard work, perseverance and self-belief there is no limit to what you can achieve.

~ Roy Bennett

The only difference between a grown-up's mistake and a child's is the size of the consequence.

~ Teresa R. Funke

Mistakes aren’t mistakes they are lessons!

~ Israelmore Ayivor