Mistakes Quotes

We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-bought experience. --George Washington

No man ever progressed to greatness and goodness but through great mistakes.

--Frederick W. Robertson

When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

--Katherine Mansfield

When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

--Cynthia Heimel

Forget your mistakes, but remember what they taught you.

--Dorothy Galyean

Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave.

--Mary Tyler Moore

Take risks. You can't fall off the bottom.

--Barbara Proctor

Let these mistakes quotes show you that succeeding and screwing up go hand-in-hand.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

--Sophia Loren

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I'll show you a person who has never achieved much.

--Joan Collins

He who has never failed somewhere, that man cannot be great.

--Herman Melville

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

--Conrad Hilton

I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life's experiences, bad and good, make you who you are. Erasing any of life's experiences would be a great mistake.

--Luis Miguel

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

--John Powell

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

--Denis Waitley

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

--Dr. David M. Burns

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior. While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

--Henry C. Link

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

--Mahatma Gandhi

Some of the biggest failures I ever had were successes.

--Pearl S. Buck

Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong.

--Muhammad Ali

If a man has a talent and cannot use it, he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it, he has gloriously succeeded, and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

--Thomas Wolfe

Most people live and die with their music unplayed. They never dare to try.

--Mary Kay Ash

I hope you enjoyed these mistakes quotes. ~Adam

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