Top 100 Mistake Quotes
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51. “It’s a good habit to trumpet your failures and be quiet about your successes.”

— Charlie Munger

52. “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

— Henry Ford

53. “The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn’t whether you will make them, it’s what you will do about them. It’s whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.”

— Stephen R. Covey

54. “Every failure is a blessing in disguise, providing it teaches some needed lesson one could not have learned without it. Most so-called Failures are only temporary defeats.”

— Napoleon Hill

55. “The biggest mistake you could ever make is to think you work for anyone but yourself.”

— Brian Tracy

56. “There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew.”

— Thomas A. Edison

57. “Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”

— Denis Waitley

58. “Fail early, fail often, in order to succeed sooner.”

— Tom Kelley

59. “I maybe made some mistakes, but I’m only human.”

— Eminem

60. “Nothing is a mistake. There’s no win and no fail. There’s only make.”

— Corita Kent

61. “The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.”

— Elbert Hubbard

62. “Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.”

— Bruce Lee

63. “There are no mistakes or failures, only lessons.”

— Denis Waitley

64. “It’s good to learn from your mistakes. It’s better to learn from other people’s mistakes.”

— Warren Buffett

65. “After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.”

— Zig Ziglar

66. “When you make a mistake, be excited! Analyze what happened, and learn from it.”

— Zig Ziglar

67. “We all make mistakes. If you can’t make mistakes, you can’t make decisions. I’ve made a lot bigger mistakes myself.”

— Warren Buffett

68. “I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.”

— Johnny Cash

69. “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

70. “We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin.”

— Nikola Tesla

71. “I was born to make mistakes, not to fake perfection.”

— Drake

72. “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.”

— Dave Pelzer

73. “Make failure your teacher, not your undertaker.”

— Zig Ziglar

74. “So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist.”

— Stephen Hawking

75. “With every mistake, we must surely be learning.”

— George Harrison

76. “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”

— Robin S. Sharma

77. “If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one’s own self-deception and ignorance.”

— Marcus Aurelius

78. “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

79. “If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.”

— Confucius

80. “Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

81. “Every time you quit, someone else gets your prize. Every time you make a mistake, you get closer to yours.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

82. “Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.”

— John C. Maxwell

83. “I hope that this year, you make mistakes. If you do, then it means you have tried, learned, lived, pushed yourself, changed you and your world, and most importantly, you’ve done something.”

— Neil Gaiman

84. “In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

85. “There’s a bit of hidden magic in every mistake. The magic is called learning.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

86. “Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.”

— Neil Gaiman

87. “You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing.”

— René Descartes

88. “You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.”

— R. Buckminster Fuller

89. “Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.”

— T.D. Jakes

90. “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

91. “Never mistake motion for action.”

— Ernest Hemingway

92. “As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around.”

— Haruki Murakami

93. “You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.”

— Robert T. Kiyosaki

94. “Life’s a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference.”

— Tupac Shakur

95. “If you are born poor it’s not your mistake, but if you die poor it’s your mistake.”

— Bill Gates

96. “A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.”

— James Joyce

97. “Thinking is the biggest mistake a dancer could make. You have to feel.”

— Michael Jackson

98. “Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.”

— George Soros

99. “The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there’s life, there is hope.”

— Stephen Hawking

100. “Time brings an end to everything. We should not mistake for a tragedy what is no more than the passage of time.”

— Robert Breault