1,732 Quotes About Mistakes

Here is a short history of mankind: Some make mistakes - purposely or unintentionally - and then others pay for it!

Anything ever written needs a disclaimer.

Whatever has been done, can never be undone. And through all of this misfortune, I was the one to get the stain of guilt, the gross wound.

My mistakes cannot be undone, forgotten, or ignored. But I can make amends. I can do something now.

My greatest hope regarding the future rests on the mistakes I’ve made in the past, for those are the most effective things I’ve got to build with.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future

As we come to make the most important decisions in the history of life, I personally would trust more in those who admit ignorance than in those who claim infallibility. If you want your religion, ideology or world view to lead the world, my first question to you is: ‘What was the biggest mistake your religion, ideology or world view committed? What did it get wrong?’ If you cannot come up with something serious, I for one would not trust you.

The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we are, we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the difference. If we are, we will make terrible errors. But we still have to have the courage to struggle on, trusting in our own points of reference to show us the way.

A mistake is an experience, choice or concept it is necessary for us to have or make in order to evolve beyond it. Errors can be the launchpad of great ideas.