Quotes about Mistakes
You probably think you know...The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.
- F Scott Fitzgerald
If you start your own thing, you can learn a lot really fast from doing things wrong.
- Drew Houston
But I think my mistakes became the chemistry for my miracles. I think that my tests became my testimonies.
- Bishop TD Jakes
We need an untamed Savior because… only a wildly redemptive Jesus can free us from the pain and bondage of past mistakes!
- Lisa Harper
For sure, I would much rather look as if I have it all together and never make mistakes. But as the Bible cautions us, "If we claim to be without sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us."12
- Liz Curtis Higgs
A commitment to growth is a commitment to risk, courage, faith, strength, hope, and a willingness to make mistakes, get back up and try again.
- Christine Caine
We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.
- Henry Cloud
Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
- George Bernard Shaw
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
Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.
- John Maxwell
In their estimation Gillian was young and stupid and would get herself pregnant in record time—all the prerequisites for a miserable and ordinary life.
- Alice Hoffman