Mistake Quotes – 51 Sayings About Errors And To Learn From Faults

Looking for effective mistakes quotes and the best sayings about making wrong decisions, being stupid and learning from mistakes? Then you've come to the right place! In the past, I liked to resist admitting my mistakes and shortcomings.

Today I know that they are something great, because you can learn directly from them. Mistakes are not bad - they are just human and reveal to you opportunities to do things better in the future.

That's why I want to present you here really inspiring short quotes, aphorisms and wisdoms about mistakes. Also in the hope that we will use them to develop ourselves personally. Let's go!

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The Best Quotes And Sayings About Mistakes And Wrong Decisions

Nobody is perfect - and that's a good thing. Otherwise, life would probably be pretty boring. There would be no discussions - and new, creative ideas would also be superfluous. Laaa boring, isn't it?

However, mistakes make life exciting! Regularly they show us our personal development potential - and that we are not perfect.

All we have to do is recognize them, understand them and avoid them in the future. So, use the following sayings about shortcomings and mistakes to help you forever to make aware that wrong decisions can also open new doors.

Mistake Quotes 1 - 10

1. "If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a mistake." (Frank Wilczek)
2. "The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." (Nelson Mandela)
3. "A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new." (Albert Einstein)
4. "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong." (Bertrand Russell)
5. "Not everyone has to do the same stupid things." (Roman Herzog)
6. "The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err." (Thomas Carlyle)
7. "Don't find fault, find a remedy." (Henry Ford)
8. "All of us make many mistakes in life. Let's learn to recognize our weaknesses and ask for forgiveness." (Pope Francis)
9. "The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake." (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
10. "He who says A does not have to say B. He can also recognize that A was wrong." (Bertolt Brecht)

Mistake Quotes 11 - 20

11. "There is, I assure you, a medical art for the soul." (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
12. "A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct is committing another mistake." (Confucius)
13. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." (Mahatma Gandhi)
14. "Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it." (John Henry Newman)
15. "If I could live my life again I’d make exactly the same mistakes. Just a little earlier, so I have more of them." (Marlene Dietrich)
16. "Everyone is mistaken - but the one who refuses to admit his own mistake will always be wrong!" (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
17. "It's incredible how much intelligence is used in this world to prove nonsense." (Christian Friedrich Hebbel)
18. "Our shortcomings are our best teachers: but against the best teachers one is always ungrateful." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)
19. "Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings." (Jean de La Bruyère)
20. "With eagle eyes we see the mistakes of others, with mole eyes our own." (Francis de Sales)

Mistake Quotes 21 - 30

21. "We often demand virtue from others so that our faults can spread more comfortably." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
22. "To see others mistakes, some people turn their eyes into microscopes." (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg)
23. "To cover a mistake with a lie is like replacing a stain with a hole." (Aristotle)
24. "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without." (Confucius)
25. "You can take a lot of people's faults by ridiculing them." (Molière)
26. "The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise." (Henry David Thoreau)
27. "All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes." (Winston Churchill)
28. "We should always forgive. We should forgive the repentant for their sake, the unrepentant for our sake." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
29. "He who repents shall not be reminded of his former sins." (Jewish proverb)
30. "Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults." (Benjamin Franklin)

Tip: Mistakes can set you back. But if you deal with them consciously, they will only make you stronger. To go along with this, you can also check out my favorite Willpower Quotes view!

Mistake Quotes 31 - 40

31. "Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." (Pearl S. Buck)
32. "People commit stupidities no matter how strict the rules or how tightly regulated the markets are. They will always commit stupidities." (Warren Buffett)
33. "Every mistake seems incredibly stupid when others make it." (Christoph Lichtenberg)
34. "Anyone can make a mistake; but how he bears the consequences of the fault, this is what distinguishes the noble mind from the common one." (Ernst Raupach)
35. "If you have saved a young person from making mistakes, you have also saved him from making resolutions." (John Erskine)
36. "You don't fall over your mistakes. You always fall over your enemies who take advantage of those mistakes." (Kurt Tucholsky)
37. "Where there are mistakes, there is experience." (Anton Pavlovich Chekhov)
38. "A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery." (James Joyce)
39. "Those who fall have to get back up and learn from their mistakes." (Rainer Barzel)
40. "Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes." (Antisthenes)

Mistake Quotes 41 - 51

41. "Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them." (Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach)
42. "Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time." (George Bernard Shaw)
43. "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others." (Otto von Bismarck)
44. "The most genuine thing about a men are his flaws." (Michelangelo)
45. "A fear of mistakes leads to another mistake." (Horace)
46. „Begangene Fehler können nicht besser entschuldigt werden als mit dem Geständnis, daß man sie als solche erkenne.“ (Pedro Calderón de la Barca)
47. "Dogs have all the good qualities of men without having their faults at the same time." (Frederick II the Great)
48. "If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others." (François de La Rochefoucauld)
49. "Failure is simply the opportunity to start over again, this time more intelligently." (Henry Ford)
50. "You can err with an idea, but you can't err with your heart." (Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky)
51. "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." (Winston Churchill)

Can you think of any other wrong quotes and sayings about wrong decisions? Then always come up with your favorite sayings in the comments!

What do we actually mean by an error?

A mistake is an action that causes a Deviation from an expected, optimal and considered correct condition. Errors are defects, so to speak, because something deviates from an accustomed standard.

Why is it okay to make mistakes?

Dealing with errors reveals itself character size and maturity of a person. Because mistakes are opportunities. You can learn from them, develop further and grow from them.

That's another reason why it's perfectly okay to make mistakes - you should only If possible, try not to commit them a second time.

How can you overcome fear of failure?

Fear of failure (technical term: Atychiphobia) is the fear of making mistakes, failing at a task, and not meeting other people's expectations.

Through Self-distance, the Viewing mistakes as an opportunity, taking a self-confident look at one's own successes in life, as well as different relaxation techniques, one can work on overcoming one's own fear of failure.

Using Quotes About Bad Decisions And Foolishness And Learning From Mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes. But if you accept them as such, you certainly won't make them a second time. Wrong decisions and stupidities only make us smarter and better if we learn from them. When I think back 5-10 years, I really realize what I have learned. Is it the same for you?

The biggest mistake of my life was definitely not questioning what was being done to animals for having them on my plate until I was 30.

Here are some final further articleswhich will show you why I think it was a mistake to have questioned this so late:

• Documentaries about factory farming
• Stop factory farming
• Why I live vegan
• Common beginner mistakes made by new vegans

Do you have any questions or more exciting quotes about mistakes? What was your biggest mistake in life and what did you learn from it? I look forward to your comments.

Remain adaptive,

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