1,732 Quotes About Mistakes

The more mistakes I make, the less I judge other people's mistakes

Failure is not failure unless we fail to learn from it.

Without hesitation, I can tell you that it wasn’t the ability to get it right that got me here. Rather, it was the ability to learn every time that I got it wrong.

Never having made a mistake is a success that is always inferior to having made a mistake and having learned from it.

There are so many mistakes you can learn only by making them yourself. There is no substitute for experience.

Erfahrung ist die Summe der Dummheiten, die man im Bedarfsfall wieder anwendet."[ARD Morgenmagazin, May 2002]

Looking back now, I would say that this was one of the first valuable lessons I learned, and one that would be useful in my future line of work. Sometimes things go wrong. It is inevitable. But it is a mistake to waste time and energy worrying about events that you cannot influence. Once they have happened, let them go.

Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes.

Wisdom is finding out that a cobra is deadly; without first having to lose one’s life.