Top 100 We Learn From Mistakes Quotes
#1. Wishes do not a world make. We do the best we can where we are, every minute, every breath. We make mistakes, and we have to live with them. We try to learn from them. And that is all we can do.
Christie Golden
#2. But the good thing about life, Julian," she continued, "is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better. One mistake does not define you.
R.J. Palacio
#3. No one wants to learn from mistakes, but we cannot learn enough from successes to go beyond the state of the art.
Henry Petroski
#4. Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
L.M. Montgomery
#5. I'd not known such mistakes to happen
but we don't learn so much
from those things we do correctly
so perhaps it's best we see poorly
through our misconstructed eyes
David R. Cravens
#6. We do not learn from experience ... we learn from reflecting on experience.
John Dewey
#7. Mistakes are expensive. Mistakes are good, because we can learn from them. I must be a slow learner because I repeat most of mine.
Linda Greenlaw
#8. We need to learn ourselves before we can understand what really annoys us!
Auliq Ice
#9. We all carry pieces of our journeys within us," Roland said. "We all learn from our mistakes. Who's to say we don't deserve happiness?
Lauren Kate
#10. Life's not about making mistakes because we all do. But you must always learn and rebound from your mistakes to catapult yourself to a better life!
Timothy Pina
#11. We do learn from experience and may not make the same mistakes again, but there is a whole new pickle jar of fresh ones just lying in wait for us to trip up and fall into. The secret is to accept this and not to beat yourself up when you do make new ones.
Richard Templar
#12. We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
Norman Vincent Peale
#13. When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.
Holly Near
#14. One of the most valuable lessons I learned ... is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.
Ann Richards
#15. We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.
Steve Gleason
#16. We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.
Joe Torre
#17. Fact: From quitting smoking to skiing, we succeed to the degree we try, fail, and learn. Studies show that people who worry about mistakes shut down, but those who are relaxed about doing badly soon learn to do well. Success is built on failure.
Martha Beck
#18. If you make mistakes that is alright because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.
Wangari Maathai
#20. People make mistakes, it's just part of life. But, it's what we do with those mistakes that matters. What matters is what we learn from the mistakes, not what the mistake is.
Chris Hankin
#21. I think you've got no choice but to suffer more. It was your job to save people's lives. You weren't allowed to make mistakes. But nobody's perfect, and we all make mistakes at some point in our lives, no matter how hard we try. But every time we do make a mistake, we have to learn from it.
Minari Endou
#22. If we fail to learn from our trials and errors then we truly fail.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#23. It's good to make mistakes whether they are common or obscure, we learn more from our own mistakes while working rather than from any book or lecture.
Tanay Pant
#24. Wisdom stems from personal accountability. We all make mistakes; own them ... learn from them. Don't throw away the lesson by blaming others.
Steve Maraboli
#25. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to share everything that we've learned from TOMS, so that others can learn from both our mistakes and the counterintuitive principles that have guided our success.
Blake Mycoskie
#26. We should embrace our mistakes, not fear them, learn from them, as we know we are not perfect. We do not come from perfection, we reach for perfection.
Shani Bush
#27. The term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes.
Meg Cabot
#28. I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
Rand Paul
#29. I say we must learn from our past so that we do not make the same mistakes in our future.
Search of the Lost
Thomas R. Gaskin
#31. We normally learn at least as much from our mistakes as we do from our successes. The best development driver/engineer I ever knew once told me that he reckoned that about 20% of his bright ideas worked.
Carroll Smith
#32. Hopefully as a country, that we learn from our mistakes of the past.
Robert Matsui
#33. Sometimes it's hard to hear when we've done something wrong. But we can learn from our mistakes.
Melissa Kantor
#34. We learn a lot from the mistakes of others, but even more from our own.
Fausto Cercignani
#35. Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.
Robert Kiyosaki
#36. But sweetie, we aren't defined by the mistakes we make, but by what we learn from those mistakes and how we move on.
Alyssa Rose Ivy
#37. It's a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don't learn from our successes.
Keith Braithwaite
#38. I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.
Cary Elwes
#39. If we're going to make mistakes anyway, we might as well learn from them
"teachable moments".
Orrin Woodward
#40. We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.
Debbie Macomber
#41. We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
Adrian Grenier
#42. I incline to an aristocratic republic. This would satisfy the ambitious spirit among our people. We shall learn from the historic mistakes of others in the same way as we learn from our own; for we are a modern nation and wish to be the most modern in the world.
Theodor Herzl
#43. We are all wont to make mistakes, but if we learn from each trick, each error, and refuse to allow it to happen again, then the experience is not a loss, but a lifelong gain. Our pride may sting for the moment, but our future will be the better for it.
Karen Hawkins
#44. History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.
William H. Hastie
#45. They urge us to study our history that we might learn from past tragedies and errors. But sometimes I think it's actually a good thing that humanity so easily forgets. The haze that eventually claims old suffering often enables us to move on.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#46. We all make mistakes, but it is those that learn from them that rise to the top.
Taboo
#47. You press on. We are who we are because of and in spite of our families. All we can do is learn from their mistakes. Use the strengths you inherited and overcome the weaknesses.
Michelle Pace
#48. The challenge is to learn from those mistakes so we don't repeat them.
Debbie Macomber
#49. We do wrong. It's not bad but making mistakes if we don't realize it that's called bad or the baddest of all ... what we learn from our mistakes that's important ...
Debolina Bhawal
#50. People screw up. People screw up a lot. We allow our own selfishness to overpower us at times. It happens. But you can't allow that to tear you down. You can't keep dwelling on your past choices, and your past actions, or else you'll never learn from them.
Nicole Sobon
#51. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. - Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anonymous
#52. Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale Turner
#53. Love or hate me, I stay hate free
They say we learn from mistakes, well, that's why they mistake me
Lil' Wayne
#54. Everything that occurs to us in life is a resource, an experience that we can learn from and grow from.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#55. But it's important to acknowledge that while we may make mistakes, in the long run, we may also learn from them.
Sarah Dessen
#56. Mistakes are so interesting. Here's a wonderful mistake. Let's see what we can learn from it.
Carol S. Dweck
#57. Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It's ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!
Steve Maraboli
#58. It doesn't matter now. What's done is done. It's in the past, so let's leave it there. Plus, if we could rewind time and fix our mistakes, we'd never learn from them. Right?
Abi Ketner
#59. The best things in life are making mistakes, because we can learn from it.
Jan Jansen
#60. The moment we successfully learn to 'swiftly acknowledge, accept, correct and learn' from our mistakes, is the moment when to we will truly begin to SUCCEED!
Abha Maryada Banerjee
#61. Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom, we learn from trial & error, we become wise by understanding problems.
Leon Brown
#62. We can only learn from mistakes, by identifying them, determining their source, and correcting them ... people learn more from their own mistakes than from the successes of others.
Russell L. Ackoff
#63. I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race.
Lana Del Rey
#64. I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.
Mary Daly
#65. It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
Steve Maraboli
#67. Let's face it, we're all imperfect and we're going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.
John Wooden
#68. Knowingly or unknowingly, our past disappointments guide us positively and or negatively in our present day journey of life, based on how we see and use the lessons from our past!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#69. We should listen to the voice of conscience. It does not take nearly as much courage as one might think to admit to our mistakes and learn from them. Human beings are in this world to learn and to change themselves in learning.
Traudl Junge
#70. We are all entitled to make mistakes, but what separates a hero from a villain is how we learn from those mistakes. A villain will see his past as a weakness to be erased. A hero will see his past as experience, to be acknowledged and incorporated into the present.
Mitch Rowland
#72. We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.
Jessie J.
#73. We always learn more from those whom we hate than those whom we love.
Auliq Ice
#74. Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.
Norman Vincent Peale
#75. But really, the term "forgive and forget" doesn't make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn't always healthy. But if we forget, we don't learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.
Meg Cabot
#76. To be yourself and to learn from your mistakes. If you have a problem, try to get help, you can get through it if you get help. When we were on the show, there was no paparazzi, none of that. I was really lucky that I got to avoid all that.
Maureen McCormick
#77. You learn from mistakes, you learn from losses, but this game doesn't put something on me where it's, 'Hey, I've finally done it. This was a big game. We won it and we have to move on.'
LeBron James
#78. The unfortunate thing is that, sometimes, we slip, but, fortunately, consciously or unconsciously, we learn from our slips all the time, except some people!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#79. Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.
Scott McClellan
#80. Omens are a language, it's the alphabet we develop to speak to the world's soul, or the universe's, or God's, whatever name you want to give it. Like an alphabet, it is individual, you only learn it by making mistakes, and that keeps you from globalizing the spiritual quest.
Paulo Coelho
#81. Our greatest mistakes, if we look at them, and digest them, and interact with them, and learn from them ... they can be the greatest moments of our lives.
Dan Pearce
#82. Without pain, there would be no suffering. Without suffering, we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.
Angelina Jolie
#84. Only when we accept and forgive all that is or has been the good, the bad, and the ugly of our human lives can we get off the guilt trip and back into the flow. That means we must love our humanness and all of our failings; we must accept, learn from, and yes, even love our mistakes.
Sonia Choquette
#85. The measure of a man cannot be whether he ever makes mistakes, because he will make mistakes. It's what he does in response to his mistakes. The same is true of companies. We have to apologize, we have to fix the problem, and we have to learn from our mistakes.
Wil Shipley
#86. History is an ongoing novel, but if we don't learn from what we read and see we are doomed to repeat the mistakes of history.
Tony Brooks
#87. We learn from failure, not from success!
Bram Stoker
#88. We all learn a lot from successful people, people who care and make us feel good, yet we learn much more from failures and those who hate us, (we learn how to avoid the mistakes they made.)
Auliq Ice
#89. No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could've done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it's best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.
Billy Graham
#90. We all make mistakes, but we need to learn from them and move on. You can own a mistake, or the mistake will own you.
Po Bronson
#91. I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person
Marilyn Manson
#92. But the good thing about life is that we can fix our mistakes sometimes. We learn from them. We get better.
R.J. Palacio
#93. Camillo always say we are on earth to learn. I think I want to teach. I want to teach history so that the world does not have to repeat our mistakes.
Amy Harmon
#94. Mistakes are the doors of discovery", by James Joyce. A similar one: "A man can be destroyed but not defeated" by Ernest Hemingway. Both remind me that our biggest mistakes are the experiences we learn the most from. Hope to improve gives everyone the desire to live the next day, doesn't it?
Robert Pattinson
#95. To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.
Joshua Foer
#96. All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them.
Raheel Farooq
#97. We all mess up. It's what we learn from our mistakes that matters.
Lauren Myracle
#98. We all get hurt at some point in a relationship, Lucas. It happens a lot in a marriage. Even the best ones have someone getting hurt at one point or another. The key is to apologize when you do hurt her and learn from your mistakes. No one expects you to be perfect.
Samantha Chase
#99. No, but still, the fact is, at least this is how it seems to me, everybody has to learn about it [love] from scratch for themselves. And we all make the same mistakes time and again while we're learning.
Aidan Chambers
#100. God doesn't expect perfection. All he asks is that we learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. He forgives us far more easily than we often forgive ourselves. He also heals the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed.
Irene Hannon
