42 Quotes About Mistakes We Make

Sometimes things just don’t work out the way we want them to. Sometimes they go terribly wrong. While this is certainly disappointing, it can be a great learning experience. What’s important is how we respond to disappointment, and how we make the best of any situation Read more

These mistake-we-make quotes will help you maintain your composure when things don’t go your way, and remind you that there’s always something positive to learn from experience.

Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the...
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Sometimes we place faith in the wrong people for the right reasons. We're too blind to their faults, and they're too blind to appreciate us.– Brighton Hayes Kelli McCracken
It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own...
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It’s easy to count other people’s mistakes. Make your own if you can. Ljupka Cvetanova
In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the...
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In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them! Avijeet Das
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Success sits on a mountain of mistakes Bangambiki Habyarimana
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Until we courageously find a cheaper antidote to our ignorance, we shall always pay a higher price for our ignorance courageously. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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He could make mistakes.... the first time. Aporva Kala
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We are bound to make mistakes. We are bound to meet mistakes. We have regretted certain decisions we took yesterday today and we may regret some decisions of today tomorrow but not until we regret the regrets, we shall always have the regrets Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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The benefits often outweigh the suffering. Never concentrate on the pain, focus on the reward. Lailah Gifty Akita
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A mistake is a stepping stone to success Bangambiki Habyarimana
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We acquire insightful lessons of life in moments of failure than success. Lailah Gifty Akita
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I tried to pick the burned ones from the bowl but I didn't get many of them because I didn't make much of an effort, and even though I was taking the burned ones out because they weren't edible, I ate them because, at the moment, I thought it would be better if everyone learned to consume their own mistakes. Catherine Lacey
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Horror was written all over his face as he began to understand that that child of his wasn’t stupid, or immune to what he had done in the past. It had greatly affected her. Diyar Harraz
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Once I am alive, I still have the chance to live rightly for the rest of my life. Lailah Gifty Akita
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We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained. Unknown
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All humans learn from each other's mistakes. Intelligent humans learn how to avoid them, idiots how to do them. Raheel Farooq
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Don’t listen to advice. Give yourself the freedom to make your own errors, it’s the only way you’ll learn. Stewart Stafford
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You are never defeated in life, you are only a learner. Lailah Gifty Akita
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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
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You'll learn. It takes time to kill the flesh, honey. It's kind of like those candles your father used to put on Mitchell's cake--the ones that relight when you think they're out. You've got to keep huffing and puffing and maybe even use the help of water before it's over, but eventually it's over, and that candle can't be lit even if you try -Mrs. Flannery Heather Randall
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Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don’t think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back. Steve Goodier
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. we had to forgive to survive in the labyrinth. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless. . John Green
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We have to accept that there are certain things in our life that are inescapable. These are the things that come natural to us and are necessary to our existence. Auliq Ice
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It is good to have a reason for every action you perform other than blaming others for your faults. Auliq Ice
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Embrace your imperfections. Fancy your flaws. Flaunt your blemishes. Adore your birthmarks. Laugh off glitches. Discuss your setbacks. Don’t call your mistakes ‘Regrets’Call them ‘Lessons Jasleen Kaur Gumber
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Life is an act and we are the actors of life. Some are able to act well but some are crippled by the fear of fear. Be it good or bad, great or mediocre, we all do take steps in life; sometimes out of ignorance, out of pain, out of love, out of hatred, out of comfort and sometimes out of jealousy. We may slip as we take these steps in life but when we realize what we should have done, we ought to regret and take action. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Every day we all make little MISTAKES in life, but that doesn't mean we have to pay for them for the rest of our lives. Sometimes GOOD people make BAD choices, but that doesn't mean we are BAD people... It just means we are HUMAN! Karen Gibbs
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When we make mistakes, we simply say sorry. And saying the words would cost us our pride most of the time. RSCruz
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We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity. Jay Woodman
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Take time to understand uncanny and bitter situations or else, you shall only end up creating yet another similar situation, situation after situation, time and again! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Mistakes and slips are a necessary evil part of our daily living. We learn through them all the time. Life is too broad for us to do everything so perfectly, but we must not justify our mistakes and slips when we know that we are far better than our mistakes! The best regret is to take a robust action in the right direction to prove how far better we are than our mistakes and slips. Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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It is by your own that you have to learn a lesson and they by themselves so that they will blame you not. Auliq Ice
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Well, The Year Is Finally Wrapped up, Looking Back, I Made Mistakes Along Just like The Next Man, As a Matter of Fact, I Have Wronged, Disappointed, Been Inpatient a Little Insecure, Been Out of Control and at Times Hard to Bare With.My Prayer Dear Family and Friend is That You Forgive Me and Continue to Bare With Me as I Look Upon Myself and Work on Myself on The Next Coming Years, I Haven't Been The Best of Friends But Sure I Will As I Continue To Seek God's Enlightenment and Wisdom. I Love You All and Bless You In God's Name. William Nsubuga
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We made mistakes learnt from them not to repeat it again. But some mistakes are made repeatedly but we feel helpless after doing it... Debolina Bhawal
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We all have the potential to do terrible things. But we also have the potential to overcome our mistakes. Veronica Rossi
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I know I can't change the past. Not my mistakes or the mistakes of others. But I can begin by changing me. Mary Alice Monroe
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I was so ashamed for a mistake I made unknowingly when I was completely out of control and lost my mind for some reasons. I thought about to end my life next day at some point. I was struggling to cope with my pain, shame and thinking about others who I had hurt unintentionally. The worst moment came when people who I loved most had pulled out their support and threatens me to end relationships. Lesson learns hard way that people who are not with you at worst time of your life have no right to stand beside you when you are at best. Life goes on...... Sammy Toora Powerlifter
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In life we all should learn to forgive but never forget. Best way to learn from our mistakes. Jonathan Anthony Burkett
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How do you learn if they don't make mistakes? It's good to make mistakes but not that many. Angela Bernabe
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When you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The most important thing is recognizing, accepting and learning the lessons out of the lessons. just ponder! Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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It is a rather remarkable trick of the mind that there can be a wicked little voice that whispers in your ear that you’ve done it before and nothing happened, so why not do it again? Everything will be OK, it says. Things are bad now, but something will turn up. The good will prevail, you’ll be rescued, you’ll find the answer at the last minute. No one dies in a story… F.D. Lee
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Those who neglect the lessons of their past are doomed to no future. T.A. Uner