Helen Keller
Author, Activist
"Making a mistake is falling down; failure is not getting up again."
Making Mistakes quotes
Making Mistakes
119 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Dean Martin
Singer
"Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler."
Joseph Conrad
Novelist, Short Story Writer
"If you don't make mistakes, you don't make anything ."
Mac Miller
Rapper, Singer, Songwriter
"If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far."
Jay-Z
Rapper, Businessman
"No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn."
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"We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin."
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"Those who never make mistakes work for those of us who do."
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"Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works."
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"The biggest mistake you can make in your life is to be always afraid of making a mistake."
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"You can only go forward by making mistakes."
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"A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding."
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"Making mistakes is natural. Making mistakes is how we learn."
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"When we make mistakes they call it evil. When God makes mistakes they call it Nature!"
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"The more you attack, the more your opponent will make mistakes."
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"Only the one who does not question is safe from making a mistake."
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"Be bold, make mistakes, learn a lesson, and fix what doesn't work."
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"Only when I fall do I get up again."
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"You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too."
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"There's nothing wrong with making mistakes, just don't make the same ones. We don't want to duplicate them."
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"You have to make mistakes to find out who you aren’t."
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"We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings."
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"If you are afraid of making mistakes, you won't learn anything and you won't make much money."
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"No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake"
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"The only people, scientific or other, who never make mistakes are those who do nothing."
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"Part of being young is making mistakes."
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