50 Quotes About Correcting Mistakes

Mistakes are the best way to learn in life. Each mistake we make offers us key insight into the world around us. Here is a look at some great quotes about correcting mistakes that will keep you encouraged.

“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”

“And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.”

“Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.”

“As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.”

“At an early age I learned that people make mistakes, and you have to decide if their mistakes are bigger than your love for them.”

“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!”

“Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.”

“Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.”

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

“God knows I’m not perfect, either. I’ve made tons of stupid mistakes, and later I regretted them. And I’ve done it over and over again, thousands of times; a cycle of hollow joy and vicious self-hatred. ”

“Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.”

“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”

“I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.”

“I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.”

“I know I’m not going to be in your head all the time. But once you know me, I’ll be forever in your heart. ”

“I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn’t explain away afterwards.”

“I’d learned enough from life’s experiences to understand that destiny’s interventions can sometimes be read as invitation for us to address and even surmount our biggest fears. ”

“If he can’t handle you at your worst then he does not deserve you at your best. Real love means seeing beyond the words spoken out of pain, and instead seeing a person’s soul.”

“If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.”

“If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.”

“I’m afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can’t be corrected and it festers. ”

“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”

“In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them.”

“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”

“It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.”

“It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we’re wrong is courage, not weakness.”

“It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. ”

“Makin’ mistakes ain’t a crime, you know. What’s the use of having a reputation if you can’t ruin it every now and then?”

“Maybe you expected marriage to be perfect – I guess that’s where you and I are different. See, I thought it would be all about making mistakes, but doing it with someone who’s there to remind you what you learned along the way.”

“Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.”

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

“Nothing in this life will ever make sense to me but I can’t help but try to collect the change and hope it’s enough to pay for our 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.”

“Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.”

“Some mistakes… Just have greater consequences than others. But you don’t have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.”

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life were haircuts.”

“Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.”

“The 50-50-90 rule: anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.”

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

“The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.”

“These are the few ways we can practice humility: To speak as little as possible of one’s self. To mind one’s own business.”

“True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.”

“We all make mistakes but one has to move on.”

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. ”

“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.”

“What a waste my life would be without all the beautiful mistakes I’ve made.”

“When you find your path, you must not be afraid. You need to have sufficient courage to make mistakes. Disappointment, defeat, and despair are the tools God uses to show us the way.”

“Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.”

“You’re afraid of making mistakes. Don’t be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people’s faces. They beat me with sticks.”

Making amends for the mistakes you made in the past is the perfect way to bring closure into your life.