Quotes about Mistakes

Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from making bad decisions.

There is no art which has not had its beginnings in things full of errors. Nothing is at the same time both new and perfect.

Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.

Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.

Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself, And know that everything in this life has purpose. There are no mistakes, No coincidences, All events are blessings given to us to learn from.

None of us can know what it's like for someone else. It's what makes us individuals. We each have our own pain, our own mistakes. But we can reach out toward each other, help each other. That's what makes us human.

He was my father. I own half his genes, and all of his history. Believe this: the mistakes are part of the story. I am born of a man who believed he could tell nothing but the truth, while he set down for all time the Poisonwood Bible.

I believe people give their mistakes more power than they need. We should admit them, repent, and ask God to forgive us for them. We should also learn from our mistakes because by doing so, they can add value to our lives. Instead of allowing mistakes to make you feel guilty and bad, let them be your teacher, and always remember that just because you make a mistake does not mean you are a mistake.

Man proceeds in the fog. But when he looks back to judge people of the past, he sees no fog on their path. From his present, which was their faraway future, their path looks perfectly clear to him, good visibility all the way. Looking back, he sees the path, he sees the people proceeding, he sees their mistakes, but not the fog.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

If we repent, God always recycles our mistakes.

One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise sayings.