- If you never get off-trail you never discover new landscapes. Maxime Lagacé
- “If a woman cannot make her mistakes charming, she is only a female.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories
- “Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom.” ― William Jordan
- “If you take decisions based on others’ advice, you’ll go wrong but 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!
- A weak man is just by accident. A strong but nonviolent man is unjust by accident. Mahatma Gandhi
- “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
- “Because I have experienced pain, I am able to embrace the pain of others. Because I have made mistakes, I am able to forgive others their mistakes. May my suffering become the seed of compassion” ― Haemin Sunim, Love for Imperfect Things: How to Accept Yourself in a World Striving for Perfection
- “We all need something:The blood needs the red The sky needs the blue The grass needs the green The good need the best The last needs the first The bye needs the same The air needs the light The light needs the sun The moon needs the starsThe night needs the awake The you need the all But then you lose’em all The lies need the truth The love needs the care The mom needs the son The son needs the dad The parents need the both In the end they disappear The self needs the egoThe body needs the soulThe death needs the breath The grave needs you there.” ― Aya Sabrine Soussi
- Your worst mistakes are your biggest blessings. Unknown
- If one doesn’t know his mistakes, he won’t want to correct them. Seneca
- “Though I failed to remain faithful to the woman I married originally in 2004, I will never resign myself to repeating the same mistakes again. A coward would do that, and I am no coward.” ― Aaron Kyle Andresen, How Dad Found Himself in the Padded Room: A Bipolar Father’s Gift For The World
- “If I simply look at the map that I’ve so tediously created, it will explain why I’m laying at the bottom of this cliff looking up.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- If we experience any failures or setbacks, we do not forget them because they offend our self-esteem. Instead we reflect on them deeply, trying to figure out what went wrong and discern whether there are any patterns to our mistakes. Robert Greene
- “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, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
- Safe roads lead to expected places. Maxime Lagacé
- “How long do you think the sentence for this crime should be? A year? Five? Ten?’ Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we’ve genuinely attempted to make amends. How reasonable is that sentence?” ― Lori Gottlieb, Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
- “All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love — I scarcely dare say it — but in love our very mistakes don’t seem to be able to last long?” ― Thornton Wilder, The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement. C.S. Lewis
- When someone admits a mistake, they should be appreciated for their honesty and not be frowned upon. Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
- Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? L.M. Montgomery
- “You’re stuck because you don’t make enough mistakes.” ― Maxime Lagacé
- For every mistake that you learn from you will save thousands of similar mistakes in the future, so if you treat mistakes as learning opportunities that yield rapid improvements you should be excited by them. But if you treat them as bad things, you will make yourself and others miserable, and you won’t grow. Ray Dalio
- 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
- “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
- People who don’t have time to learn always find time to make the same mistakes again and again. They go fast but not far. Shane Parrish
- “The ultimate measure of a person is not her mistakes or accomplishments, but what she does with them.” ― Liza Wiemer
- “I learn from my own mistakes, but you dwell in my mistakes. You carry my mistakes around , so that when I am happy or when I have made it. You can remind me of my mistakes or how unperfect or not good I am and that is your biggest mistake. The biggest mistake that is hindering you from being successful, happy and making it in life. My mistakes are your heavy burden not mine.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos
- “And a special thanks for not burning up the whole ship. Including yourself, you daft bum-rag.” ― Scott Westerfeld, Leviathan
- “Happiness grows best in the soil of contentment.” ― Tim Fargo
- “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, Anne of Avonlea