Quotes on Learning From Our Mistakes

Human beings are the only creatures who are allowed to fail. If an ant fails, it's dead. But we're allowed to learn from our mistakes and from our failures. And that's how I learn, by falling flat on my face and picking myself up and starting all over again.

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

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

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

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

So that's my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody's ever made before. Don't freeze, don't stop, don't worry that it isn't good enough, or it isn't perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.