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Here are 100 of the most inspiring mistakes quotes I could find. Hope you’ll learn that after all making mistakes is probably not that risky. You’ll discover quotes by Einstein, Gandhi, Voltaire, and more. Enjoy!
You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you. Maxwell Maltz
If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. Tallulah Bankhead
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? L.M. Montgomery
Perhaps one can learn only by one’s own mistakes. The essential thing is to learn. Learning and living. Eleanor Roosevelt
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Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s. Billy Wilder
Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes. George Soros
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
You should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are. Daniel Dennett
AdvertisementIn general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. John Ruskin
Be thankful for your failures. They reveal the winning strategies. James Clear
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce (Ulysses)
Better make mistakes than faking perfections. Paulo Coelho
If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a mistake. Frank Wilczek (Nobel Prize winner in physics)
The only mistake is caring what others think. Maxime Lagacé
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Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes. Kevin Kelly
It’s better to fail than procrastinate. Sahil Lavingia
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. Tryon Edwards
The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them — especially not from yourself. Daniel Dennett
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth. Jules Verne
Your worst mistakes are your biggest blessings. Unknown
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake. Confucius
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. Robert Greene
For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won’t grow. Ray Dalio
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No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. François de La Rochefoucauld
We are very good lawyers for our own mistakes, and very good judges for the mistakes of others. Paulo Coelho
Learn from mistakes, but never regret you made them. We make mistakes because we dare to step outside our comfort zone. Paulo Coelho
It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. Jodi Picoult (Handle with Care)
Show me a person who has never made a mistake and I’ll show you someone who has never achieved much. Joan Collins
You learn to love mistakes once you realize you learn faster with them. Maxime Lagacé
The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It is the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. Missing once is an accident. Missing twice is the start of a new habit. James Clear
Top performers make mistakes just like everyone else. The difference is that they get back on track faster than most. James Clear
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error. Cicero
If one doesn’t know his mistakes, he won’t want to correct them. Seneca
Failing to admit a small mistake is the surest way to make a big one. Johnny Uzan
You should take the approach that you’re wrong. Your goal is to be less wrong. Elon Musk
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Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dalí
To err is human, to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
Never interrupt an opponent when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies. Voltaire
Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure. Charles Dickens
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not. Carl Jung
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. Elbert Hubbard
A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others. Albert Einstein
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, ‘Where have I gone wrong?’ Then a voice says to me, ‘This is going to take more than one night.’ Charles M. Schulz (Charlie Brown)
A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident. Mahatma Gandhi
Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Oscar Wilde
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down. Mary Pickford
You build on failure. You use it as a steppingstone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. Johnny Cash
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. Henry Ford
Learning from other people’s mistakes is much more pleasant. Charlie Munger
Being wrong isn’t a bad thing like they teach you in school. It is an opportunity to learn something. Richard Feynman
Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out. Benjamin Franklin
Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience. Denis Waitley
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
You are a man! For you know how to say, ‘I was wrong!’ Charles de Gaulle
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The greatest risk is not trying. Maxime Lagacé
Life teaches us through our mistakes. Haemin Sunim
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C.S. Lewis
Making mistakes is like creating a path in the jungle. As you advance, you start to see more clearly. Maxime Lagacé
A mistake is simply the price they pay to achieve success. Mistakes are the stepping stones to success. John C. Maxwell
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. Oscar Wilde
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Norman Vincent Peale
Your mistakes should be your motivation, not your excuses. Unknown
Beloveds, don’t be afraid to admit when you’re wrong. It is okay to make a mistake. Iyanla Vanzant
Making a wrong decision is better than no decision at all. In the latter, you make zero progress. In the former, you fail, learn, and grow. Preethi Kasireddy
To invent and to fail are one and the same, you cannot have one without the other. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
It is better to start as a fool and learn from your mistakes than to fake being a genius and ignore your errors. James Clear
My biggest mistake was thinking I shouldn’t show my mistakes. I learned I should. Jack Dorsey (Twitter)
The real challenge is holding yourself to a higher standard and simultaneously not punishing yourself for the occasional mistake. Yung Pueblo
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn’t trying. Tony Robbins (Source)
If we treat everything as an experiment, every result is useful. Jack Butcher
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The mistake is not being wrong. The mistakes is staying wrong. John Hill
Individuals rarely admit mistakes. Groups never do. Naval Ravikant
Safe roads lead to expected places. Maxime Lagacé
You’re stuck because you don’t make enough mistakes. Maxime Lagacé
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles
To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. Plutarch
I don’t believe I have the ability to say what is going to work. Rather, I try to eliminate what’s not going to work. I think being successful is just about not making mistakes. It’s not about having correct judgment. It’s about avoiding incorrect judgments. Naval Ravikant
You shouldn’t expect to fail, but you should plan for failure. The fastest way to get back on track is to know what to do when you’re off it. James Clear
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right than to be responsible and wrong. Winston Churchill
The easiest way to avoid wrong notes is to never open your mouth and sing. What a mistake that would be. Pete Seeger
An architect’s most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. Frank Lloyd Wright
If you are afraid to learn from your mistakes, you will more than likely keep repeating them. Robert Greene
Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing. Tara Brach
When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won’t one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic. Jean Rostand
When someone admits a mistake, they should be appreciated for their honesty and not be frowned upon. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If you remove pride from the equation, mistakes are simply accelerated learning. Maxime Lagacé
You want failures to be small and informational. Silicon Valley does very well. It knows how to use failure as a tool for improvement. Nassim Nicholas Taleb (Related: How to Innovate: LITTLE BETS by Peter Sims, 6-minute animated YouTube video)
People who don’t have time to learn always find time to make the same mistakes again and again. They go fast but not far. Shane Parrish
Experience is what you got when you didn’t get what you wanted. Howard Marks
Reframe mistakes as experiments and it’s suddenly bearable. Maxime Lagacé
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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause, who at best knows achievement and who at the worst if he fails at least fails while daring greatly so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat. Theodore Roosevelt
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