Learning From Our Mistakes Quotes

To improve, we must watch ourselves fail, and learn from our mistakes.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned…is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.

The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.

Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a “foregone conclusion.” Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.

But really, the term “forgive and forget” doesn’t make sense to me. Forgiving does allow us to stop dwelling on an issue, which isn’t always healthy. But if we forget, we don’t learn from our mistakes. And that can be deadly.

Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn’t in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

There are no mistakes, no coincidences; all events are blessings given to us to learn from.
Copyright: Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Family Limited Partnership.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.