- 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
- “In the way that you need to clear the way to make a road, those who betray and abandon you expose things you need to remove from your life. They reveal the mistakes you made in trusting them and how you can avoid them in the future, and move on.” ― Innocent Mwatsikesimbe, The Vision
- “Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the groundwork for later success.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.” ― Liza Wiemer
- “If you take decisions based on others’ advice, you’ll go wrong anf still not learn. When you make mistakes yourself, you’ll have learnt with each mistake!” ― Sandeep Sahajpal, The Twelfth Preamble: To all the authors to be!
- The real challenge is holding yourself to a higher standard and simultaneously not punishing yourself for the occasional mistake. Yung Pueblo
- “The only mistake about love is that life can’t remember it and the heart won’t find it.” ― Laura Chouette
- Pros are just amateurs who know how to gracefully recover from their mistakes. Kevin Kelly
- You’re stuck because you don’t make enough mistakes. Maxime Lagacé
- “Sometimes when you lose your way, you find YOURSELF.” ― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
- “One mistake does not have to rule a person’s entire life.” ― Joyce Meyer, Any Minute
- 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
- A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing another mistake. Confucius
- “If you want to learn something, then make mistakes or ask someone. I think both are the best ways to learn.” ― Zeeshan Ali
- “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, Rich Dad, Poor Dad
- “The only difference between a grown-up’s mistake and a child’s is the size of the consequence.” ― Teresa R. Funke, Doing My Part
- The only mistake is caring what others think. Maxime Lagacé
- “Beware of speaking too much, for it increases mistakes and engenders boredom.” ― Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S
- “From recovery to rags and rags to recovery symbolizes art – a perfect compilation of human imperfections.” ― Criss Jami, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile
- “Great losses are great lessons.” ― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
- “An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them.” ― Werner Heisenberg
- “You make mistakes, mistakes don’t make you” ― Maxwell Maltz
- Top performers make mistakes just like everyone else. The difference is that they get back on track faster than most. James Clear
- 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
- It is fine to celebrate success, but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure. Bill Gates
- The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. Elbert Hubbard
- 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
- “Chasing a man is not winning. The only thing you win is the loss of your dignity. Confidence is knowing your value, instead of expecting a man’s love to provide you with value.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. James Joyce (Ulysses)
- “There are no regrets in life, only experiences. Every experience helps us to be what we can be.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind