80+ Quotes About Life Mistakes That are Relatable

Life is a journey filled with different experiences. Mistakes are important parts of this journey. Quotes about life mistakes help you express how you feel about making a mistake and also show us the smart things we learn from these mistakes. Nobody is perfect so it’s okay to not be perfect, just like everyone else.

Mistakes are integral to your formation and growth, think of mistakes as stepping stones along the way. These ups and down moments aren’t roadblocks; they’re like lessons that help you grow. In fact, they’re like the seeds that make you wiser as you go through life.

Wise people like philosophers and authors share their thoughts in these quotes about life mistakes. They help you understand your mistakes better, learn from them, and become stronger and live life fully. Let’s explore these quotes together and see how mistakes can teach us valuable lessons as we grow and discover more about ourselves. Check out the top quotes about life mistakes!

Quotes about life mistakes

• “Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.” ― Albert Einstein
• “The price of inaction is far greater than the cost of making a mistake.” ―  Meister Eckhart
• “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. ― Elbert Hubbard
• “It takes guts and humility to admit mistakes. Admitting we’re wrong is courage, not weakness.” ― Roy T. Bennett
• “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ― Mahatma Gandhi”
• “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.” ― Sophocles

• “One of the huge mistakes people make is that they try to force an interest on themselves. You don’t choose your passions; your passions choose you.” ― Jeff Bezos
• “My greatest hope regarding the future rests on the mistakes I’ve made in the past, for those are the most effective things I’ve got to build with.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
• “I am by nature a perfectionist, and I seem to have trouble allowing anything to go through in a half-perfect condition. So if I made any mistake it was in working too hard and in doing too much of it with my own hands.” ― Howard Hughes

• “One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist…..Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist” ― Stephen Hawking
• “We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterwards.” ― Alison Croggon
• “Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.” ― Niccolo Machiavelli
•  “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.” ― Paulo Coelho

• “The difference between greatness and mediocrity is often how an individual views a mistake.” ―  Nelson Boswell
• “To some people, I am kind of a Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes. I’ve made some bad ones, but fortunately, the successes have come along fast enough to cover up the mistakes. When you go to bat as many times as I do, and continually improve upon your mistakes, you’re bound to get a good average.” ― Walt Disney
• “In school we learn that mistakes are bad, and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.” ― Robert T. Kiyosak
• “The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them.” ― Kimon Nicolaides

• “I mean, the general rule is if you’re not prepared to make a mistake, you’re not going to make much progress.” ― Maurice Wilkins
• “We make lots of mistakes in our lives, but not every mistake creates a similar result. Sometimes we pay, sometimes others pay.” ― Shon Mehta
• “Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience.” ― Thomas J. Watson
• “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.” ― Eckhart Tolle

• “Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.” ―  Pearl S. Buck
• “It’s okay to not be perfect and not to have everything figured out. It’s okay to feel things that are shameful, hate, and feel guilty. I feel like the message we’ve tried to stand by, is that it’s basically okay to have scars and to show them. To show that you’ve been through all sorts of things and have come out a different and better person because of it.” ― Hayley Williams
• “We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.” ― Samuel Smiles
• “Conceptually, I am open to mistakes – errors, actually. I do play lots of wrong notes while I am making some music, and a mistake or a wrong note is like a gift for me: ‘Oh, wow, an unknown sound or an unknown harmony. I didn’t know about this.” ― Ryuichi Sakamoto

Mistakes in life are like the bumps in a road trip. They’re bound to happen, and that’s okay! Sometimes you take a wrong turn, make a bad decision, or stumble along the way. But guess what? These mistakes are like teachers, giving you important lessons to help you navigate better in the future. Now check out the short quotes about mistakes in life!

Short quotes about life mistakes

• “Your best teacher is your last mistake.” ― Ralph Nader
• “Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” ― Salvador Dali
• “Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte
• “To err is human, to forgive, divine.” ― Alexander Pope
• “The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.” ― Henry Ford
• “Failure is the key to success; each mistake teaches us something.” ― Morihhei Ueshiba

• “We made too many wrong mistakes.” ―Yogi Berra
• “Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.” ― Julianna Baggott,
• “Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. – Sophia Loren
• “You make mistakes, mistakes don’t make you” ― Maxwell Maltz

• “Everyone makes mistakes. Everyone deserves a second chance.” ― Eleanor Roosevelt 
• “Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” ― Mahatma Gandhi
• “Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.”― Len Deighton
• “There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.” ― Lisa Gardner

• “There is nothing final about a mistake, except its being taken as final.” ― Phyllis Bottome
• “Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you to recognise a mistake when you make it again.” ― Franklin P. Jones
• “Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them.”― Evinda Lepins,
• “Nothing is more intolerable than to have admit to yourself your own errors.” ― Ludwig van Beethove

• “As long as the world is turning and spinning, we’re gonna be dizzy and we’re gonna make mistakes.” ― Mel Brooks
• “Your mistakes only define the rest of your life if you let them. Don’t let them.” ― Sabaa Tahir
• “Sometimes people fake perfection. But the people who show their mistakes are real, and they are the creators in the world.” ― Avijeet Das
• “Why learn solely from your mistakes when you can learn from the mistakes of others?” ― Frank Sonnenberg
• “A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.” ― Robert Fripp

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

“Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be; they are a necessary ingredient.” ― David Schnarch

Mistakes are an inherent part of life experience, and they happen to everyone at various points in life. While they may bring you discomfort, disappointment, or regret, mistakes also offer valuable opportunities for learning and growth. The sad quotes about life mistakes in life will help you express how you feel. Check them out!

Sad quotes about life mistakes

• “The longer you live, the more mistakes you make. And the more sorrows you carry.”
  ― Nalini Singh
• “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.” ― Oscar Wilde
• “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.” ― Marilyn Monroe

• “On this planet, there is no perfection. If you chose to end relationships because of one mistake, you’re going to be alone.” ― Dan Gilbert
• “I have learned all kinds of things from my many mistakes. The one thing I never learn is to stop making them.” ― Joe Abercrombie
• “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. But even so, every time I learned something about myself. ” ― Misato Katsuragi

• “The man who finds that in the course of his life he has done a lot of wrong often wakes up at night in terror, like a child with a nightmare, and his life is full of foreboding: but the man who is conscious of no wrongdoing is filled with cheerfulness and with the comfort of old age.” ― Plato
• I think we all wish we could erase some dark times in our lives. But all of life’s experiences, bad and good make you who you are. Erasing any of life’s experiences would be a great mistake.” ― Luis Miguel
• “I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
• “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.” ― Tahereh Mafi

• “So that’s my wish for you, and all of us, and my wish for myself. Make New Mistakes. Make glorious, amazing mistakes. Make mistakes nobody’s ever made before. Don’t freeze, don’t stop, don’t worry that it isn’t good enough, or it isn’t perfect, whatever it is: art, or love, or work or family or life.” ― Neil Gaiman
• “The beauty of doing nothing is that you can do it perfectly. Only when you do something is it almost impossible to do it without mistakes. Therefore people who are contributing nothing to society, except their constant criticisms, can feel both intellectually and morally superior.” ― Thomas Sowell
• “Mistakes. Trial and error. Same thing. Mistakes are how we learned to walk and run and that hot things burn when you touch them. You’ve made mistakes all your life and you’re going to keep making them.” ― Tamara Ireland Stone

• “I feel that people are basically trying to do their best in the world. Even when you see people making mistakes, you understand why they’re making a mistake. Everybody has flaws, everybody has demons, everybody has ghosts, but I think you watch people and you see everybody trying to do their best.” ― Jason Katims
• “A mistake made with good in your heart is still a mistake, but it is one for which you must forgive yourself.” ― Linda Sue Park,
• “The worst mistake you can make is underrating your enemy. Assuming that they’re evil – I think it’s a terrible thing to do.” ―  Edward Nwali

• “If I have gained anything over these months, it is the knowledge there is no starting over- only living with the mistakes you’ve made.” ― Jodi Picoult
• “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.” ― Tahereh Mafi
• “No matter how much you try to maintain order in your life, no matter how careful you are to guard against mistakes, against imperfections, there is always some smudge, some flaw, lurking out of sight. Waiting to surprise you.” ― Tess Gerritsen,

Quotes about learning from mistakes

“Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.” ― Amisha Patel

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.” ― Steve Maraboli

• “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!” ― Steve Maraboli
• “A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.” ― Roy H. Williams
• “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.” ― B. F. Skinner

• “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. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.” ― Terry Goodkind
• “In the real world, the smartest people are people who make mistakes and learn. In school, the smartest people don’t make mistakes.” Robert T. Kiyosaki

• “There are no mistakes in life, only lessons. There is no such thing as a negative experience, only opportunities to grow, learn and advance along the road of self-mastery. From struggle comes strength. Even pain can be a wonderful teacher.”” ― Robin Sharma
• “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” ― George Bernard Shaw

• “I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realise there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.” ― Bob Schieffer
• “To blame me in the past is a very future me thing to do. But what am I supposed to do, blame someone else for my mistakes? Somebody needs to be held accountable, and it certainly won’t be the version of me in that moment.” ― Jarod Kintz
• “We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ” ― Samuel Smiles

• “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. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.” ― Terry Goodkind

• Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.” ― Amisha Patel
• “Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your 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.” ― Al Franken

• “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.” ― Jojo Moyes
• “Mistakes are the best part of your life. Mistakes taught me that everything & everybody was right at an individual place. Mistakes are that part of life where we immensely learn to love, live, leave, forget & forgive everything which comes across.” ― Sonal Takalkar
• “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!” ― Steve Marabol

•  “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. – Johnny Cash
• Let us cry for the spilt milk, by all means, if by doing so we learn how to avoid spilling any more. Let us cry for the spilt milk, and remember how, and where, and why, we spilt it. Much wisdom is learnt through tears, but none by forgetting our lessons.” ― Maria Amparo 
• “When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: admit it, learn from it, and don’t repeat it. – Paul Bear Bryant

• “To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.” ― Plutarch
• Sports teaches you there is always a second innings in life. If you fail today, there’s a second innings maybe two days later. Maybe there’s another opportunity coming up three or six months later. If you look at mistake as learnings and commit never to make a same mistake again, then you actually get better with every mistake that you make.” ― Harsha Bhogle
• “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.” ― Dave Pelzer

• “You must never feel badly about making mistakes … as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons.” ― Norton Juster
• “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. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” ― Ray Bradbury
• “The moment we learn to forgive ourselves for mistakes and look forward is the moment when we will better manage our emotional state.” ― Nicole Smith

Conclusion

Life is hard sometimes, it is a journey filled with both ups and downs, and mistakes are an inevitable part of that journey. Rather than dwelling on your mistakes and letting them define you, view them as valuable learning life experiences. Mistakes teach you important lessons, help you grow, and ultimately contribute to your personal development.

Do not focus on quotes about life mistake or your life struggles, embrace your mistakes with a positive attitude and use them as stepping stones towards a better future is the key to leading a fulfilling and meaningful life. So, remember, it’s not about avoiding mistakes altogether, but about how you learn from and bounce back from them that truly matters.