Quotes on Learning From Mistakes

In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don't make mistakes.

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

Literally falling on the ice and having to pick yourself up in front of thousands of people is not an easy thing to do. The thing that you learn is to pick yourself back up, to learn from your mistakes.

When we first begin fighting for our dreams, we have no experience and make many mistakes. The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and get up eight times.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

One way to learn to do something right is to do something wrong. Failure must teach us, or surely success will not reward us.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

O, happy the soul that saw its own faults.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.

What do you first do when you learn to swim? You make mistakes, do you not? And what happens? You make other mistakes, and when you have made all the mistakes you possibly can without drowning - and some of them many times over - what do you find? That you can swim? Well - life is just the same as learning to swim! Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

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

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

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

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

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

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

It's too bad failures don't give seminars. Wouldn't that be valuable? If you meet a guy who has messed up his life for forty years, you've just got to say, 'John, if I bring my journal and promise to take good notes, would you spend a day with me?'

I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes...you're Doing Something.

It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.