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Quotes about Mistakes

There is much in life that is complicated and beyond our understanding, but the basic principles of human liberty are not so complicated, and if we hold to them, we will find a way to correct our mistakes and set a true course
- Madeleine Albright
Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are.
- Oprah Winfrey
Every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid.
- John Keats
The only way to even approach doing something perfectly is through experience, and experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
Don't' call it a failure, call it an education. Some of us are very educated.
- Rick Warren
To be developed as a leader, failure must be allowed. Failure only helps us improve.
- Bill Hybels
The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes from being corrected.
- GK Chesterton
A-tone-ment-its a chance to fix the unfixable and to start all over again. It begins when you forgive yourself for all you've done wrong, and forgive others for all they've done to you. Your mistakes aren't mistakes anymore, they're just things that make you stronger.
- Glenn Beck
We have only one life. We may waste it, or we may use it to learn of God and what God wants for us. And we all make mistakes. Only one life.
- Glenn Beck
None of us is perfect. There was only one perfect man who ever walked the earth, and He was the Son of God. We all have weaknesses and I guess we all make mistakes and will make mistakes in the future, but look for the virtues, the strengths, the goodness in those with whom you labor, and draw those characteristics into your own lives and make them a part of yourselves, and you will be the richer for it all the days that you live.
- Gordon Hinckley
To highlight the mistakes of a person and gloss over the greater good is to draw a caricature. Caricatures are amusing, but they are often ugly and dishonest.
- Gordon Hinckley