92 Mistake Quotes
A collection of mistake quotes to encourage you and others. When faced with a mistake the most important thing is your attitude towards it.
We all make errors, we can all find fault, but how we move forward is the most important thing.
How would we learn if we never made a mistake!
By Catherine Pulsifer, updated August 8, 2024.
Quotes
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The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.
John C. Maxwell
Poems about Mistakes
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If we dwell on our mistakes, follies, and sins all strength will go out of us,
C. G. Ames
Poems About Strength
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Don't ever make the mistake of telling God that you have nothing to offer. That simply is not true. God does not create any junk.
Dr. Myles Munroe
Christian Poems
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Yesterday has already passed, with all its past mistakes. There is no point to worrying, mistakes are part of life's stakes.
Julie Hebert, Two Days of Every Week
Inspirational Poems
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Gardening is an art of trial and error; mistakes are part of the journey to a beautiful landscape.
Catherine Pulsifer
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You'll make mistakes aplenty, boy, but don't let that distress, so long as you've the staying power to mend each passing mess
David V. Bush, Don't Lose Your Goat
Funny Poems
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The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
John Powell
Poems of Encouragement
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All the past things are past and over....Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover
Susan Coolidge, Begin Again
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I'm thankful for my disappointments, for the battles lost; and for the mistakes that seem to charge an overwhelming cost.
Lawrence Hawthorne, Facing Life's Problems
Poems About Life Struggles
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Past mistakes can't be undone but the knowledge they give can lead to victories won
Catherine Pulsifer, An Opportunity To Reload
Poems About Defeat
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Always remember we all make mistakes but own up to the things that you have done before more trouble it brings.
Catherine Pulsifer, Fess Up
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Don't accept failure’s embrace...learn from mistakes so success you'll find.
Catherine Pulsifer, Don't Accept
Poems About Failure
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My hopes start to fade until I learned that mistakes are pathways made.
Catherine Pulsifer, Accepting Defeat
Try Try Again Poem
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All the past things are past and over...yesterday's errors let yesterday cover
Susan Coolidge, New Every Morning
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If you come to Christ and say, "Lord, here I am. Forgive me of my sin," He can transform you and change you. He can take your mistakes and your sins, turn them around, and even use them for His glory.
Greg Laurie
Inspirational God Quotes
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An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando A. Battista
Attitude Quotes
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You'll make mistakes aplenty, boy, but don't let that distress, so long as you've the staying power to mend each passing mess
David V. Bush, Don't Lose Your Goat
Poems About Life
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"Picking up the pieces when they fall" begins a journey to living
anew with love, courage, and hope for a bright future.
Steve Brunkhorst, When Dreams Get Shattered: Picking Up the Pieces
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Life's a lesson, never-ending...Tripping up and making mistakes, learning from them, for goodness' sake!
Catherine Pulsifer, Life's Lesson To Grow
Poems About Growth
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Resilience...it's not about being perfect, or never making a mistake, but rather, it's about bouncing back, and finding your own way to create.
Catherine Pulsifer, The Power Of Resilience
Poems About Resilience
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I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
Edward Gibbon
Respect Quotes
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What if you've made mistakes in life? Don't hang your head in sorrow, but profit by the lesson learned
B. L. Austin, The End Will Tell
Poems About Worry
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Only he who does nothing makes a mistake.
French Proverb
Proverbs
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To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams
Risk Quotes
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Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Every Day
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Why grieve o'er errors of the past...the past don't make us right or wrong. 'Tis what we are today.
Jesse E. Campeil, Forget It
Letting Go Poem
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Folks die too easy, they sort o' fade away; make a little error and give up in dismay
Louis E. Thayer, Keep Your Grit
Never Give Up Poem
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Some of the most beautiful things we have in life comes from our mistakes.
Surgeo Bell
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Just keep learning through your mistakes - don't give up, you have what it takes!
Catherine Pulsifer, One Lesson
Poems About Learning
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While a formal education lays the foundation for our growth, let us not forget the valuable lessons we learn from life's mistakes, for they, too, become invaluable teachers.
Catherine Pulsifer
Poems About Education
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To be a friend a man should be tolerant, he should have an understanding heart and forgiving nature, knowing that all men stumble now and then, and that he who never made a mistake never accomplished anything.
Wilferd Peterson, You My Friend
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Your mistake does not define who you are - you are your possibilities.
Oprah Winfrey
Possibilities Quotes
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Be thankful for your mistakes. They will teach you valuable lessons.
Author Unknown, Be Thankful
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Good people make mistakes and hurt others - then they learn from their mistakes and try not to make them again.
Bob Anderson
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Admit when you are wrong when you have made a mistake. And do it quickly.
Catherine Pulsifer
Apology Poems
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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Les Brown
Forgiveness Quotes
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God's mercy is bigger than any mistake you have ever made.
Author Unknown
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You can't go back and change the past by doing this you're making mistakes last - learn what you can and move on
Catherine Pulsifer, To Wish
Poems About Regret
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Excuse me! beg your pardon! too, when by mistake some harm I do.
Unknown, Golden Keys
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Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection
of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley
Experience Quotes
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The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
William Connor Magee
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... utilize learning from past mistakes and proceed with renewed confidence.
Byron Pulsifer
Opportunity Poem
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God’s mercy is bigger than your mistakes.
Unknown
God's Mercy Poems
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If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another
chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but
the staying down.
Mary Pickford
Failure Quotes
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You grow from your mistakes and the next time you aim at a goal, you will know exactly what it takes to achieve it.
Noah Daniels
Quotes About Growth
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Each sad misfortune, mistake, pitfall - are lessons needed, one and all.
David V. Bush, We Must Suffer If We Win
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I have learned that mistakes can often be set right
Arthur C. Benson, I Have Learned
Poems On Life Lessons
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promise yourself....To forget the mistakes of the past and press on to
greater achievements of the future.
Christy Larson, Promise Yourself
A Life Well Lived Poem
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The biggest mistake we could ever make in our lives is to think
we work for anybody but ourselves.
Brian Tracy
Work Quotes
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The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm S. Forbes
Enjoy Life Quotes
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Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving
and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot
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...look at the new year as a fresh start; a time to let past mistakes die, and a sparkling probability of the achievement of brand new heights.
Byron Pulsifer
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You should first forgive yourself for the wrongs you've done to yourself and others, for the mistakes you've made.
Wilfred Peterson, The Art Of Forgiveness
Forgiveness Poems
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Learn from my mistakes - it can help improve your bottom line,
give you some extra money for those things you've always wanted,
and potentially improve your over all health with better eating habits.
Byron Pulsifer
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When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it - immediately.
Stephen Covey
Learning Quotes
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Don't wait until I'm in my grave to sum up my mistakes, because when told of yours, you rave and great confusion make.
James Henry Thomas, My Request
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I've had this motto I never worry over past mistakes, but as I grow older I profit by them and look forward.
E. A. R. Shepherd, My Mottoes
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Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones of genius.
Elbert Hubbard
Difficult Times Quotes
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No man on earth has gone through life without some bruises in the strife; each in his day has made mistakes.
David V. Bush
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If I had to live my life over again, I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
Nadine Stair
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Don't make people feel bad when they make a mistake.
Richard A. Moran, Never Confuse a Memo with Reality
Defeat Quotes
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The man who achieves makes many mistakes, but he never makes
the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing.
Benjamin Franklin
Procrastination Quotes
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Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one.
Author Unknown
Believe Quotes
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Preparation for success means that any failure you meet is seen
as an opportunity to learn from mistakes. Remember that failure is
your best teacher.
Byron Pulsifer
Graduation Poems
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Whenever you make a mistake or get knocked down by life,
don't look back at it too long. Mistakes are life's way of teaching you.
Your capacity for occasional blunders is inseparable from your capacity
to reach your goals.
Og Mandino
Goals Quotes
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Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman
Short Inspirational Quotes
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If you're not making mistakes, you're not taking risks,
and that means you're not going anywhere. The key is to make
mistakes faster than the competition, so you have more changes
to learn and win.
John W. Holt, Jr.
Positive Quotes About Change
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We all make mistakes, we all do things wrong. No one is perfect nor will they ever be.
Byron Pulsifer
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And don't be discouraged if you make a mistake,
fix it and move on - that is how we learn!
Catherine and Byron Pulsifer
Discouragement Quotes
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By ignorance we mistake, and by mistakes we learn.
Proverb
Poems About Winning
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he biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy.
Malcolm S. Forbes
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I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.
Jack Welch
Success Poem
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Learn from the situation. Mistakes are our greatest teachers!
No sense dwelling on the issue. Recognize and think of ways for
the future to avoid a similar situation and then move on! Remember
you can't change the past, but you can change the future!
Catherine Pulsifer, See The Positive in All Situations
Positive Thoughts
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Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster.
Weston H. Agor
Don't Quit Poem
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Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
Imagination Quotes
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Consider every mistake you do make as an asset.
Paul J. Meyer
Quotes to Live By
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Any fool can try to defend his mistakes - and most fools do - but
it gives one a feeling of nobility to admit one's mistakes.
By fighting, you never get enough, but by yielding, you get more than
you expected.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
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While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
Henry C. Link
Optimistic Quotes
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Everyone makes mistakes, and it's okay. Learn from them, move on, don't let them ruin your day.
Catherine Pulsifer
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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
Appreciation Quotes
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Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.
Henry S. Haskins
Blame Quotes
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Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
Edmund Burke
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The difference between greatness and mediocrity
is often how an individual views a mistake.
Nelson Boswell
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Anyone who doesn't make mistakes isn't trying hard enough.
Wess Roberts
Never Give Up Quotes
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Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize
a mistake when you make it again.
Franklin P. Jones
Motivational Quotes
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The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
Life Quotes
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When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long.
Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward.
Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed.
The future is yet in your power.
Hugh White
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The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.
Meister Eckhart
Action Quotes
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You don't want to have to reinvent the wheel every day.
Let people learn from your mistakes or the mistakes of others."
Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Innovation Quotes
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It's a mistake to think we listen only with our ears.
Mark Herndon
Listening Quotes
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By far the biggest mistake people make when trying to change organizations is to plunge ahead without establishing a high enough sense of urgency in fellow managers and employees.
John P. Kotter, Leading Change
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The truth is, if you feel you have made a mistake and can
summon up the courage to say so, people will rally to your support
in a way that is heartening and astonishing.
Norman Vincent Peale, The Tough-Minded Optimist
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