Quotes about Learning from Mistakes

“A person only profits from praise when he values criticism.” ~ Heinrich Heine, German Poet

“Challenges are gifts, opportunities to learn.” ~ Andy Andrews, The Traveler’s Gift

“Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.” ~ Conrad Hilton

“If you don’t know what you are doing wrong, you can never know what you are doing right.” ~ Chen Xinhua

“Landing on your butt twenty thousand times is where great performance comes from.” ~ Geoff Colvin

“If you’re not making mistakes, then you’re not doing anything. I’m positive that a doer makes mistakes.” ~ John Wooden

“Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.” ~ Unknown

“All great speakers were bad speakers first.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

“Don’t look where you fall, but where you slipped.” ~ African Proverb

“Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.” ~ Zig Ziglar

“Pain is the best instructor, but no one wants to go to his class.” ~ Bruce Lee

“Do not fear mistakes – fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.” ~ Rolfe Kerr

“We’ve all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes,
but I think it’s more important to learn from successes.
If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

“Whenever you fall, pick up something.” ~ Oswald Theodore Avery

“The proactive approach to a mistake is to acknowledge it instantly, correct and learn from it. This literally turns a failure into a success.” ~ Stephen Covey

“Opposition can be your friend. Opposition can be the fire that tempers the better sword, as well as the ice that cools a fiery temper. Don’t ever run from it; learn from it!” ~ Jack R. Rose