As humans, we all make mistakes. In fact, many of the world’s most successful people attribute their achievements to the lessons they’ve learned from their mistakes. Inspirational mistake quotes will remind you that it’s perfectly okay to make mistake as long as you learn and grow. Embark on a journey of self-discovery and personal growth with deep and thought-provoking mistake quotes. Let these mistake quotes inspire you to embrace your imperfections, rise above your setbacks and transform your life for the better.
Best Mistake Quotes
Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? L.M. Montgomery
I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best. Marilyn Monroe
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go. Steve Maraboli
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein
I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. Charles M. Schulz
Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone deserves a second chance. Eleanor Roosevelt
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. Mahatma Gandhi
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. Sophia Loren
Have no fear of perfection you’ll never reach it. Salvador Dali
Be tenacious. The world will change, things will go wrong. Life is messy. Ann Sherry
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. Napoleon Bonaparte
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing. Henry Ford
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. Paulo Coelho
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. John C. Maxwell
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. 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
To err is human, to forgive, divine. Alexander Pope
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey
We learn from failure, not from success! Bram Stoker
All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. Walt Disney
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. L.M. Montgomery
Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
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
Whenever you see a successful person you only see the public glories, never the private sacrifices to reach them. Vaibhav Shah
It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you you’d be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you’re going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn’t be there. Either that, or you’d confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable. Jodi Picoult
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him. David Brinkley
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mahatma Gandhi
You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them. Alexander Graham Bell
Some mistakes. Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen. Jojo Moyes
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future. Steve Maraboli
We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward. Alison Croggon
It ain’t as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning. Colin Powell
At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them. Angie Thomas
The distance between insanity and genius is measured only by success. Bruce Feirstein
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others. Brandon Mull
You can’t really be strong until you can see a funny side to things. Ken Kesey
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Rita Mae Brown
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man. George Bernard Shaw
I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them. Joe Abercrombie
Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can’t lose. Bill Gates
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 some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. Walt Disney
I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being forgive me rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger. J.K. Rowling
I make plenty of mistakes and I’ll make plenty more mistakes, too. That’s part of the game. You’ve just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones. Warren Buffet
It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on. Steve Maraboli
The fool who persists in his folly will become wise. William Blake
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt
In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk. Robert T. Kiyosaki
About mistakes it’s funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad. Edna Ferber
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 G. Jung
We made too many wrong mistakes. Yogi Berra
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards. Rudyard Kipling
When a doctor makes a mistake, it’s best to bury the subject. Woody Allen
Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts. Jim Morrison
I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong. Charles M. Schulz
It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we’re wrong is courage, not weakness. Roy T. Bennett
You never run out of things that can go wrong. Edward A. Murphy
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. Elbert Hubbard
Pick a side and be bold. And if you’re wrong, admit it. Jeff Goins
The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did. Jonathan Safran Foer
If you make a mistake, be big enough to admit to the mistake. People will think much better if you make an admission after a mistake. Keith Boyer
I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes. Edna St. Vincent Millay
Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning. Bill Gates
Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them. Bruce Lee
Curiosity is the lust of the mind. Thomas Hobbes
It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we’re wrong is courage, not weakness. Roy T. Bennett
One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist. Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist. Stephen Hawking
Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors. Ludwig van Beethoven
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong. François de La Rochefoucauld
Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice. Stephanie Perkins
We all make them, the difference is what we do after we make the mistake, how we see the mistake a learning experience or a failure. Catherine Pulsifer
I’m afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can’t be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life. Terry Goodkind
Some mistakes will be made along the way. That’s good. Because some decisions are being made along the way. We’ll find the mistakes. We’ll fix them. Steve Jobs
If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them. Bill Gates
One mistake does not have to rule a person’s entire life. Joyce Meyer
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure. James Altucher
We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them. John Irving
Recognise your own shortcomings and be prepared to learn quickly, including from your mistakes. If you don’t jump into the deep end at some point, you will never learn to swim. George Ilian
Makin mistakes ain’t a crime, you know. What’s the use of having a reputation if you can’t ruin it every now and then? Simone Elkeles
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying that he is wiser today than he was yesterday. Alexander Pope
Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can’t help but try to collect the change and hope it’s enough to pay for our mistakes. Tahereh Mafi
Don’t confuse poor decision making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you! Steve Maraboli
And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. Kurt Vonnegut
A man must learn from his own mistakes, to be what he wishes to be. Lailah Gifty Akita
What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I’ve made. Alice Bag
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
As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes. Mel Brooks
Mistakes and failures are precisely your means of education. They tell you about your own inadequacies. Robert Greene
I don’t know why it’s so hard for people to admit that sometimes they’re just assholes who screw up because they don’t expect to get caught. Karen M. McManus
Refusing to own your mistakes doesn’t make you seem more competent; it reveals cowardice, callousness, and untrustworthiness. Ben Carpenter
If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul. Shannon Alder
One who makes no mistakes makes nothing. Giacomo Casanova
Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. William Jordan
Better make mistakes than faking perfections. Paulo Coelho
We all make mistakes but one has to move on. Jeffrey Archer
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. George Bernard Shaw
True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past. Seth Brown
If you want to grow, you need to get over any fear you have of making mistakes. John C. Maxwell
If you insist on disavowing that which is ugly about what you do, said Magnus, still looking at Alec, you will never learn from your mistakes. Cassandra Clare
The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake. Meister Eckhart
Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes. John Dewey
Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again. Richard Branson
I know I’m not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I’ll be forever in your heart. Crystal Woods
Your best teacher is your last mistake. Ralph Nader
Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect I guess that’s where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who’s there to remind you what you learned along the way. Jodi Picoult
Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated. Monica Johnson
If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make. Iyanla Vanzant
Learning from mistakes and constantly improving products is a key in all successful companies. Bill Gates
In life, there are no mistakes, only lessons. Vic Johnson
If you want to grow, you need to get over any fear you may have of making mistakes. John C. Maxwell
I’d learned enough from life’s experiences to understand that destiny’s interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. It doesn’t take a great genius to recognize that when you are pushed by circumstance to do the one thing you have always most specifically loathed and feared, this can be, at the very least, an interesting growth opportunity. Elizabeth Gilbert
You make mistakes. You try to learn from them, and when you don’t, it hurts even more. Aretha Franklin
If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for. Amit Kalantri
So go ahead and make mistakes. Make all you can. Because that’s where you will find success. On the far side of failure. Thomas J. Watson
So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is art, or love, or work or family or life. Neil Gaiman
The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything. Do not be afraid to make mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice. Theodore Roosevelt
It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible. T.H. White
Honesty and maturity are two key factors that separate those people who can successfully change their lives and those who are destined to continually repeat the same mistakes over and over again. Sarah Devnil