Mistakes Quotes

5,614 quotes from 2,211 authors

Mistakes shape our stories, and writers have captured that truth in thousands of lines. This collection gathers voices that admit blunders, celebrate the lessons hidden in errors, and even laugh at the absurdity of a slip‑up. Readers who appreciate the honesty of failure often wander toward the pages on Learning From Failure and The Power of Resilience.

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Bury your mistakes.

Rupert Murdoch

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We all do make foolish mistakes.

Susan Ford

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I made the wrong mistakes

Thelonious Monk

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The best people make mistakes.

Stan Van Gundy

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I certainly made mistakes.

Aron Ralston

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I learn from my mistakes.

Goran Dragic

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“Some mistakes cost everything.”

Jean Haus

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Do not fear mistakes.

Benjamin Franklin

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I'm making fewer mistakes as I get older.

Kei Nishikori

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Life is like a piano. What you get depends on how you play it.

Chinier Bennett

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If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably leads to a BAR.

London Mond

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Some folks mistakes all they see for all there is.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

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Your lesson is not learned if you keep on going back to your mistakes

Anonymous

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Accepting your mistakes is the only way to make them disappear.

Senora Roy

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Nature compensates for its mistakes.

Francine Pascal

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“Mistakes when we are young is how we become wise when we are old.”

Brad Dennison

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Learn from your mistakes. One day you'll be stronger. So keep the important people with you and eventually you'll be what you…

Anonymous

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It is impossible to go through a season without a mistake. Some might be major mistakes. Some might be little mistakes.

Loris Karius

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Don't be afraid to fail. Experience is just mistakes you don't make anymore.

Joe Garagiola

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Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another…

Oprah Winfrey

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I've fell, I've failed, I've made mistakes and I'm far from perfect; but the people who love me for me don't care…

Sonya Parker

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“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. —Lucy Maud Montgomery”

Anonymous

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People can run from their mistakes, but not regrets. They can play with drama, but not with karma.

Anonymous

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“Mistakes are pieces of us. They hurt. They bring us down. And sometimes they do not go away. However we have a…

Maya Leipold

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If we don't know our own history, then we simply will have to endure all of the same mistakes, all of the…

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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Yes, you make mistakes in the old cases where you really think you know who the suspect is, and you probably do,…

Mark Fuhrman

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I guess I cringe, because sometimes I don't even watch my live performances back. When I edit, it's this feeling of seeing…

Kalup Linzy

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“In life it's not how you fall but how you get up that really counts! Don't let mistakes from your past haunt…

Timothy Pina

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“God knows I'm not perfect, either. I've made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I've done it over…

Hideaki Anno

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“Sometimes things get broken and people make mistakes. It's just what happens. And then, if you're lucky, they get fixed again, before…

Jennifer Gooch Hummer

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Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone…

Robert Genn

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“He was not a very careful person as a mathematician. He made a lot of mistakes. But he made mistakes in a…

Goro Shimura

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“Most of us believe we can spot a drowning person when we see one. But we always make the mistake of thinking…

Chioma Nkachukwu

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One of the mistakes many of us make is that we feel sorry for ourselves, or for others, thinking that life should…

Richard Carlson

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Imagine you're copying a very long document, and occasionally you'll put an A where there should be a C. And that mistake…

Spencer Wells

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The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where…

Herbert Hoover

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I have shot myself in the foot so many times, I'm crippled. Look, I am not exactly Mr. Great Career Guy. I…

Gavin Friday

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“DBT's catchphrase of developing a life worth living means you're not just surviving; rather, you have good reasons for living. I'm also…

Kiera Van Gelder

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“Face it: as much as you’d like to be, you’re not perfect. Mistakes will be made in both your freelance career and…

Michael Law

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I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle…

Larry McMurtry

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