The best Quotes and Sayings about Failures & Mistakes

But there are mistakes that are necessary. Sometimes you have to die a little bit to get back to live a little longer.

I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being - forgive me - rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.

It's just that... I just think that some things are meant to be broken. Imperfect. Chaotic. It's the universe's way of providing contrast, you know? There have to be a few holes in the road. It's how life is.

Once you have accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

You can never make the same mistake twice. Because the second time you make it, it's not a mistake, it's a choise.

Anyone who has never made a mistake, has never tried anything new.

It is only when you fall that you learn whether you can fly.

Mistakes are not shackles that halt one from stepping forward. Rather, they are that which sustain and grow one's heart.

There's a benefit about losing: you get to learn from your mistakes.

'Destiny, chance, fate, fortune -they're all just ways of claiming your success without claiming your failures.'
- Gerrard of the Weatherlight

I make mistakes
Just like everybody else
But instead of letting go of it
I can't forgive myself

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Sometimes our best decisions are the ones that don't make any sense at all.

Every decision you make is a mistake.

Examined from another angle, your faults and weaknesses can be weapons.

Whenever you leave behind failure, you're doing good. If you think everything you've done is great, you're probably dumb.

Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Most important thing in life is learning how to fall.

I have not failed. I've just found 10.000 ways that won't work.

'Of course I do,' he said. 'Failing sucks. But it's better than the alternative.'
'Which is?'
'Not even trying.' Now he did look at me, straight on.
'Life's short, you know?'

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.

Sometimes, even when you know something's a mistake, you gotta make it anyway.

The difference between the novice and the master is that the master has failed more times than the novice has tried.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.

I like flaws. I think they make things interesting.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

I have no confidence in a man whose faults you cannot see.

You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.

The failures that we have are sometimes expensive educations.

You can learn more from the lows than the highs. The highs are great but the lows make you really look at things in a different way and want to improve. Every player will have both in their careers and I have, but what you get is that experience which is so important to perform at your best.

Celebrate your successes. Find some humor in your failures.

The greatest teacher failure is.

'You want to talk about failure?' He looked up at me, meeting my eyes. 'Try being the one who was driving. Who got to live.'

The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

I didn't fear failure. I expected failure.

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

Bury your mistakes!

Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.

In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal.

I don't make mistakes. I make prophecies which immediately turn out to be wrong.

Failure at some point in your life is inevitable, but giving up is unforgivable.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.