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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing. – George Bernard Shaw
2. Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them. – Andrew V. Mason
3. After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It’s better to
explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays
for a full life. – Sophia Loren
4. An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow
field. – Niels Bohr
5. Any fool can try to defend his mistakes – and most fools do – but it gives one a feeling of
nobility to admit one’s mistakes. By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you
get more than you expected. – Lawrence G. Lovasik
6. As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna
make mistakes. – Mel Brooks
7. As you begin to take action toward the fulfillment of your goals and dreams, you must
realize that not every action will be perfect. Not everyaction will produce the desired
result. Not every action will work. Making mistakes, getting it almost right, and
experimenting to see what happens are all part of the process of eventually getting it
right. – Jack Canfield
8. Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections,
that’s their fault. – Dr. David M. Burns
9. Be thankful for your mistakes. They will teach you valuable lessons. – Author Unknown
10. Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius. – Elbert Hubbard
11. Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. –
Scott Adams
12. Don’t argue for other people’s weaknesses. Don’t argue for your own. When you make a
mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it–immediately.Stephen Covey – Stephen
Covey
13. Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you
make it again. – Franklin P. Jones
14. Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. –
Mahatma Gandhi
15. I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and
pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. –
Igor Stravinsky
16. I have to say I’ve made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you
know what? It’s never too late to learn. – Kathy Ireland
17. If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner. – Tallulah
Bankhead
18. If I had my life to live over… I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. – Nadine Stair
19. If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a
big mistake.  – F. Wikzek
20. 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
21. If you’re not making mistakes, you’re not taking risks, and that means you’re not going
anywhere. The key is to make mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more
changes to learn and win. – John W. Holt, Jr.
22. In the game of life it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the
pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season. – Bill Vaughan
23. It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled
at a time. – Winston Churchill
24. It was when I found out I could make mistakes that I knew I was on to something. –
Ornette Coleman
25. It’s always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem
worthwhile. – Garry Marshall
26. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can
shorten it. – Cullen Hightower
27. Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.– Weston H. Agor
28. Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious
life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at
least, others can learn from. – Al Franken
29. Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is
called experience. – Denis Waitley
30. Mistakes are the portals of discovery. – James Joyce
31. Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we
know what we had to work on? – Peter McWilliams
32. Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is
too late that the only things one never regrets are one’s mistakes. – Oscar Wilde
33. “Picking up the pieces when they fall” begins a journey to living anew with love,
courage, and hope for a bright future. – Steve Brunkhorst
34. Preparation for success means that any failure you meet is seen as an opportunity to learn
from mistakes. Remember that failure is your best teacher. – Byron Pulsifer
35. Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the
earth and they’re going to make mistakes. – Ross Perot
36. She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities. – Henry
James
37. Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make
mistakes, but they don’t quit. – Conrad Hilton
38. The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they
most enjoy. – Malcolm S. Forbes
39. The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a
mistake. – Nelson Boswell
40. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make
one. – Elbert Hubbard
41. The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of
all – doing nothing. – Benjamin Franklin
42. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. – William Connor
Magee
43. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. – John Powell
44. The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. – Meister Eckhart
45. There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one’s errors. It not
only clears up the air of guilt and defensiveness, but often helps solve the problem
created by the error. – Dale Carnegie
46. To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of
all. – Peter McWilliams
47. When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don’t, you only make matters worse. – Ward
Cleaver
48. When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into
your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be
changed. The future is yet in your power. – Hugh White
49. 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. – Og Mandino
50. While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes
and becoming superior. – Henry C. Link
51. Your mistake does not define who you are…you are your possibilities. – Oprah Winfrey