Famous Mistake Quotes in English with Images

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate you 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.

- Mistake Quotes by Al Franken

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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.

I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.

She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life.  Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

We must not say every mistake is a foolish one.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.

Experience teaches slowly and at the cost of mistakes.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

When you make a mistake, admit it.  If you don't, you only make matters worse.

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

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.  Art is knowing which ones to keep.

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

If I had my life to live over… I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving.  Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?