Quotes on Making Mistakes

Make sure you live,' she said. 'As decent as you can. I know you'll make mistakes, but sometimes you're meant to, okay?

We all make mistakes, we all have fears, and we all have weaknesses. Behind all that is our essential self. When our essential self has made contact with another, the light is dazzling and would fill the universe. The challenge of enchantment is to remain faithful to that light, to believe in it when it is not so apparent. Then that light becomes an incandescent glow and it wraps itself around everything.

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

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

Your Heavenly Father knows that you will make mistakes. He knows that you will stumble-perhaps many times. This saddens Him, but He loves you. He does not wish to break your spirit. On the contrary, He desires that you rise up and become the person you were designed to be.

You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too.

The trouble in America is not that we are making too many mistakes, but that we are making too few.

Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.

When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected.

The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

The worst part is not in making a mistake but in trying to justify it, instead of using it as a heaven-sent warning of our mindlessness or our ignorance.

We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

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

Of course I make mistakes. I'm human. If I didn't make mistakes, I'd never learn. You can only go forward by making mistakes.