50 Inspiring Quotes About Mistakes That Will Motivate You to Grow

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

- Henry Ford

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Charles Dickens

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

- Stephen Richards

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

- Steve Harvey

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

- John Lennon

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

- Thomas Edison

"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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Robin Sharma

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

"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

"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

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

- Oscar Wilde

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

- Billy Graham

"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

"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

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

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

- William Arthur Ward

"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

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

- Dale Carnegie

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

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Billie Joe Armstrong

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

- Enrique Iglesias

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

- Quincy Jones

"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

"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

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

- MS Dhoni

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

- Lewis Howes

"There are no mistakes, only happy accidents."

- Bob Ross

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

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

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

- Natalie Gulbis

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

- John Cena

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

- Steve Smith

"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

"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

"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

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

- Angelina Jolie

"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

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

- Lucy Maud Montgomery

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

- John Wooden

"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

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

- Nikki Giovanni

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

- Buddha

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

- Zig Ziglar

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

- Johnny Cash

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

- Catherine Cook

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Maxwell Maltz

"Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom."

- William George Jordan

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

- Elbert Hubbard

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Bruce Lee

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

- Confucius

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

- Joel Osteen

"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

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

- Joyce Meyer

"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

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

- Taylor Swift

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

- Shannon Alder

"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

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

- Lewis B. Smedes

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

- Sophia Loren

"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

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

- Meister Eckhart

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

- C.S. Lewis

"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

"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

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

- Scott Adams

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

- Robert Downey Jr.

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

- Tallulah Bankhead

"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

"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

"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

"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

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

- Max Verstappen

"Mistakes do happen and life goes on."

- Sourav Ganguly

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

- Taylor Swift

"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

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

- Johan Cruyff

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

- Justin Bieber

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

- Travis Bradberry

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

- John Piper

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- Nicholas Sparks

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

- Fawn Weaver

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

- Richelle E. Goodrich

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

- Oscar Wilde

"Mistakes are the foundation of innovation."

- Elon Musk

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

- Charlie Chaplin

"Admit your mistakes before someone exaggerates them."

- Andrew Mason

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

- Rabindranath Tagore

"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

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

- Chuck Palahniuk

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

- Alexander Pope

"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

"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

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

- Antisthenes