Mistakes Quotes

Learn from failure

Use these quotes to remind yourself to view mistakes not as failures, but as valuable lessons on the path to success, fostering resilience and innovation.

“Mistakes are the portals of discovery.” James Joyce

“It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Failure is success if we learn from it.” Malcolm S. Forbes

“Sometimes you make the right decision, sometimes you make the decision right.” Phil Mcgraw

“We all have to decide how we are going to fail...by not going far enough or by going too far.” Sumner Redstone

“Only those who are asleep make no mistakes.” Ingvar Kamprad

“Your best teacher is your last mistake.” Ralph Nader

“I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.” Jack Welch

“You may make mistakes, but you are not a failure until you start blaming someone else.” Unknown

“To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.” Peter McWilliams

“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

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.” Henry C. Link

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill

“To try is to risk failure. But risk must be taken because the greatest hazard of life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow, live, and love.” Leo Buscaglia