Quotes about Mistakes

Once you accept that perfection is just a goal, screwing up isn't so hard to handle. Each misstep is still a step, another lesson learned, another opportunity to get it right the next time.

No great saint lived without errors.

The Best and the Brightest. (One of the

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.

Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life, don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you. Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity to reach your goals. No one wins them all, and your failures, when they happen, are just part of your growth. Shake off your blunders. How will you know your limits without an occasional failure? Never quit. Your turn will come.

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.

Love is the only thing that will save us, independent of any mistakes we may make. Love is always stronger.

Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making mistakes is just part of life. What does the world want of me? Does it want me to take no risks, to go back to where I came from because I didn't have the courage to say "yes" to life?

When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.

The most serious mistakes are not being made as a result of wrong answers. The true dangerous thing is asking the wrong question.

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