100+ Inspirational Quotes on Making Mistakes: Embrace Growth and Learning

"If you don't learn from your mistakes, then they become regrets."

- John Cena

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."

- Al Franken

"I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on."

- Jay Ellis

"The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way."

- Dale Carnegie

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

- Plutarch

"You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself."

- Sam Levenson

"You don't learn from successes; you don't learn from awards; you don't learn from celebrity; you only learn from wounds and scars and mistakes and failures. And that's the truth."

- Jane Fonda

"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

"If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum."

- Holly Near

"There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness."

- Dave Sim

"A person who makes few mistakes makes little progress."

- Bryant McGill

"Don't be afraid to make mistakes. But if you do, make new ones. Life is too short to make the wrong choice twice."

- Joyce Rachelle

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

"Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Errors and Evolution (The Sonnet) Elimination of error is elimination of evolution, What's needed is correction of error not elimination. Why you ask - because error expands perception, While absence of error indicates absence of ascension. Pebbles don't make mistakes, for pebbles have no life. People make mistakes, for people are alive and kicking. Make the error, mend the error, that is how we grow. Don't be ashamed, don't be boastful, just keep correcting. Those who never make mistakes, never amount to anything, Failures are the foundation of a legend's legacy. Let them celebrate your triumphs all they want, You for one celebrate your mistakes and misery. The shallow measure a person by their glorious victories. Those with character measure a character by their tragedies."

- Abhijit Naskar

"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."

- Swami Sivananda

"The only people who don't make any mistakes are those who don't do anything."

- Kelvin Wong

"To grow you must understand and admit your mistakes, it is an approach that works for me, it is not necessarily the same for everyone."

- Charles Leclerc

"A second chance doesn’t mean anything if you haven’t learned from your first mistake."

- Zig Ziglar

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep."

- Scott Adams

"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."

- Oscar Wilde

"Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better."

- Lewis Howes

"If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit."

- William J. Clinton

"Take chances, make mistakes. That's how you grow. Pain nourishes your courage. You have to fail in order to practice being brave."

- Mary Tyler Moore

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

- Bruce Lee

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

"Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out."

- Benjamin Franklin

"It's important to learn and not repeat the same mistakes. What's done is done."

- MS Dhoni

"Your past mistakes are meant to guide you, not define you."

- Robin Sharma

"You make mistakes. Mistakes don’t make you."

- Maxwell Maltz

"I'm not perfect; I make mistakes all the time. All I can do is to try my best to learn from my mistakes, take responsibility for them, and do a better job tomorrow."

- Lana

"We must accept finite disappointment but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you’re not making some notable mistakes along the way, you’re certainly not taking enough  business and career chances."

- Sallie Krawcheck

"Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Every experience, good or bad, is a stepping stone to something greater."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them, you learn a lot."

- Steve Harvey

"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t. You take the action, and the insight follows: You don’t think your way into becoming yourself."

- Anne Lamott

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes."

- John Wooden

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us."

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Failure is success in progress."

- Albert Einstein

"We learn from failure, not from success."

- Bram Stoker

"Everyone makes mistakes; it's about the way you respond to it that's really important."

- Steve Smith

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Growth is often the result of trial and error, mistakes and learning, patience and perseverance."

- Doe Zantamata

"You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing, and by falling over."

- Richard Branson

"Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom."

- William George Jordan

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit."

- Napoleon Hill

"Courage allows the successful person to fail and learn powerful lessons from the failure so that in the end, they don’t fail at all."

- Maya Angelou

"Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time we fail."

- Confucius

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

"There are no mistakes, only opportunities."

- Tina Fey

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

- Henry Ford

"Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street."

- Zig Ziglar

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone."

- Johnny Cash

"When you fail you learn from the mistakes you made and it motivates you to work even harder."

- Natalie Gulbis

"A mistake is only an error. It becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it."

- John Lennon

"The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake."

- Meister Eckhart

"Success depends on your willingness to fail and learn."

- Thomas Edison

"A life spent making mistakes is more useful than a life spent doing nothing."

- George Bernard Shaw

"If you're not making mistakes, then you're not making decisions."

- Catherine Cook

"Mistakes are the foundation of innovation."

- Elon Musk

"The biggest mistake you can make is being afraid to make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement."

- Henry Ford

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."

- Niels Bohr

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

"Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn."

- Charles Dickens

"Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life."

- Sophia Loren

"Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference."

- Amisha Patel

"There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting."

- Buddha

"Make bold choices and make mistakes. It's all those things that add up to the person you become."

- Angelina Jolie

"Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to error that counts."

- Nikki Giovanni

"It’s not the mistakes we make that define us; it’s how we choose to learn from them."

- Mandy Hale

"We all make mistakes, but the biggest one is not learning from them."

- Stephen Richards

"Take chances, make mistakes. That’s how you grow."

- Mary Tyler Moore

"Learning by making mistakes and not duplicating them is what life is about."

- Lindsay Fox

"When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think."

- Beyonce Knowles

"Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again."

- Vincent Van Gogh

"You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff."

- Quincy Jones

"I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned."

- Enrique Iglesias

"Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them."

- Bruce Lee

"I know what it is to feel unloved, to want revenge, to make mistakes, to suffer disappointment, yet also to find the courage to go forward in life."

- Tim O'Brien

"Each life is made up of mistakes and learning, waiting and growing, practicing patience and being persistent."

- Billy Graham

"There are no mistakes, only happy accidents."

- Bob Ross

"Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything."

- Billie Joe Armstrong

"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

- Alexander Pope

"Sometimes when you lose your way, you find yourself."

- Mandy Hale

"We all make mistakes in love. The key is to learn and not make the same mistake twice."

- Taylor Swift

"A good relationship is when two people accept each other’s past, support each other’s present, and love each other enough to fix their mistakes for the future."

- Paulo Coelho

"You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

- C.S. Lewis

"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse and do better next time."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"Second chances are not given to make things right, but to prove that we could be better even after we fall."

- Shannon Alder

"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you."

- Lewis B. Smedes

"You cannot change what you are, only what you do."

- Philip Pullman

"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."

- Desmond Tutu

"Your past does not have to define your future."

- Joel Osteen

"Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

- Oscar Wilde

"Be tenacious. The  world will change, things will go wrong. Life is messy."

- Ann Sherry

"Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone deserves a second chance."

- Mo’ne Davis

"I skated, fell down and learned to pick myself up in front of millions."

- Michelle Kwan

"You need to give yourself permission to be human."

- Joyce Brothers

"Don’t carry your mistakes around with you. Instead, place them under your feet and use them as stepping stones to rise above them."

- Ryan Ferreras

"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

"A stumble may prevent a fall."

- Thomas Fuller

"Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself."

- Charlie Chaplin

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss."

- Jonathan Larson

"Admit your mistakes before someone exaggerates them."

- Andrew Mason

"One mistake does not have to rule a person's entire life."

- Joyce Meyer

"Feelings of worth can flourish only in an atmosphere where individual differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, communication is open, and rules are flexible - the kind of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."

- Virginia Satir

"What is done cannot be undone, but at least one can keep it from happening again."

- Anne Frank

"Mistakes  grow your brain."

- Jo Boaler

"But what can you do about mistakes except think, Won't do that again, and move forward?"

- Sophie Kinsella

"Then it occurred to me that there are two types of people: those who wait for the whole two lanes of a road to be completely clear before they venture across and those who risk it and charge into the middle, not knowing when they’ll get the chance to make a run for it to the other side. Neither is better than the other. The first one will have fewer problems and fewer adventures, and the second one will have more adventures and make more mistakes."

- Viv Albertine

"Walt Disney wasn't afraid of risk and failure. 'You do big things, you make big mistakes.' he says in Van Frances's Window on Main Street."

- Chris Strodder

"Whatever you did can be undone,” He says. “It may take months. It may take years. But as long as there is breath in your body, there is a chance to make up for what you’ve done. It will be slow, and difficult. But some would say it’s worth it. If you care about the people you hurt, you cannot run away. That would only cause you more pain. You must be kind to yourself."

- Sara Wolf

"Not ah single man or ah woman 'as learnt anyt'ing widout meking mistakes. Y'understand? An' everyone 'as de resources to rise up from any tribulation."

- Alex Wheatle

"The most free that you could be is when you're not trying to be perfect."

- Mitta Xinindlu

"Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it."

- Kevyn Aucoin

"Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error."

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"Even if I'm talking about something that's negative, I look at it as putting my mistakes out there for people to learn from it."

- Juice Wrld

"Mistakes and pressure are inevitable; the secret to getting past them is to stay calm."

- Travis Bradberry

"To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity."

- William Arthur Ward

"The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven."

- Robert Downey Jr.

"The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers."

- Herbert Hoover

"There's room for role models who make mistakes."

- Taylor Swift

"Mistakes do happen and life goes on."

- Sourav Ganguly

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them."

- Salvador Dali

"If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."

- Tallulah Bankhead

"Dreams always appear bad when they come to put you on the right track."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Mistakes can be corrected by those who pay attention to facts but dogmatism will not be corrected by those who are wedded to a vision."

- Thomas Sowell

"We need to allow children to try and fail. And when they do make the stupid, shortsighted decisions that come from inexperience, we need to let them suffer the results. At the same time we also need to provide balance by not setting policies that will magnify one mistake, like drug use or fighting, into a life-derailing catastrophe. Unfortunately, this is exactly what our current "zero tolerance" policies- —that expel children from school for just one rule violation—do."

- Bruce D. Perry

"Everyone makes mistakes. They trust the wrong people. They fall in love."

- Holly Black

"One mistake is all they see."

- Joyce Rachelle

"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist"

- Stephen Hawking

"I make mistakes growing up. I'm not perfect; I'm not a robot."

- Justin Bieber

"We're making the same mistakes we made 1,000 years ago. So they must be the right ones. So relax."

- Chuck Palahniuk

"Mistakes happen, and they happen to the best of us."

- Max Verstappen

"Sometimes we make mistakes in love because we see the best in people, not the reality."

- Jodi Picoult

"We’re all a little broken. But love is about finding someone whose pieces fit yours."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"It is only human to make mistakes, however, it is awfully inhuman to err upon others."

- Trent Lindsey

"Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option."

- Mark Twain

"A well-adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous."

- Alexander Hamilton

"If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out."

- Rabindranath Tagore

"We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them."

- Lillian Hellman

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."

- Harrison Ford

"Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections."

- John Piper

"Unless you have not realized your mistake, you have not done it"

- Dr.P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

"Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes."

- Antisthenes

"I'm selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I'm out of control, and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."

- Marilyn Monroe

"Never regret anything that made you smile."

- Mark Twain

"Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good."

- William O’Rourke

"The greatest relationships are not those that have no problems, but those that survive their mistakes."

- Fawn Weaver

"A mistake in love can break you or make you wiser. The choice is yours."

- Nicholas Sparks

"Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins."

- Johan Cruyff

"Fortunately, time-travel does not exist. With it, the human race would try to solve past mistakes in isolation, erase any knowledge gleaned from making them, and create a chain reaction of unforeseen consequences. These could destroy the past, along with the present and future simultaneously. Time itself could become the ultimate weapon of mass destruction."

- Stewart Stafford

"It is easy to remove a weevil from a grain, but hard to reverse the damage it does."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."

- Confucius

"Acknowledge that you failed, draw your lessons from it, and use it to your advantage to make sure it never happens again."

"Mistakes have the power to turn you into something better than you were before."

- Unknown

"Just because you make a mistake doesn’t mean you are a mistake."

"We all need second chances. If we never got them, we’d all be doomed."

- Unknown

"Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all."

"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way."

"We must not say every mistake is a foolish one."

"Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it."