Life has good and bad moments, but it is difficult for people to accept that things do not always turn out the way we want.
However, negative experiences and failures are opportunities to learn and grow as people. No one manages to achieve success without having fallen at some point along the way.
In this article you can find a list of inspiring phrases that talk about mistakes and the bad moments of life. But remember that, in reality, they are unbeatable opportunities to grow and develop.
1. We tend to commit our worst weaknesses and foibles because of the people we despise the most.
When we feel like revenge, we can make the mistake of losing our temper.
2. People who are not willing to make mistakes or have made mistakes and have not yet learned from them are those who wake up every morning and continue making the same mistakes.
Not learning from mistakes is negative for our well-being.
3. Learn from the mistakes of others: you can’t live long enough to make them all
It is also possible to learn from the mistakes of others, and it prevents us from making them.
4. Every failure teaches man something he needed to learn
The mistakes we make in life are opportunities to grow.
5. The biggest mistake you can make is believing that you are working for someone else.
Thinking about not following your dreams is the biggest mistake of your life.
6. The biggest mistake we make is trying to square the way we feel today with the way we feel yesterday. You shouldn’t even bother doing it. You should just find out what you feel today and if it is similar to what you thought yesterday. If not, life goes on
Living in the past is a serious mistake that we must avoid.
7. Many of life’s failures are from people who didn’t realize how close they were to success when they gave up.
The biggest mistake is throwing in the towel halfway.
8. My biggest mistake: not helping myself to think that I am happy, that change will come without really trying to change or wanting to change. Procrastinate change. I really want to change
Loving oneself is the best virtue that a human being can possess.
9. If ever there was a misnomer, it was “exact science.” Science has always been full of errors. Today is no exception. Our mistakes are good mistakes; because they require genius to correct them. Of course we don’t see our mistakes
A quote from Edward Teller about science that invites you to reflect deeply.
10. Those who don’t make mistakes are doing the greatest thing of all: not trying anything new.
Staying in the comfort zone may seem safer, but in the long run it prevents us from growing.
11. The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who have given up on their dreams.
There is no greater mistake than leaving aside one’s own desires.
12. If you close the door to all errors, the truth will also be left out.
Making mistakes can hurt, but growing up is even worse.
13. One of the biggest mistakes girls can make when it comes to their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, instead of going out and finding it for themselves.
The love in movies is unreal and causes a lot of suffering to people.
14. The biggest mistake is believing that there is only one correct way to listen, to speak, to have a conversation or to have a relationship.
It is a serious mistake to believe that what one thinks is the absolute truth.
15. Every failure is an opportunity to grow
When we fall, we need to get up and keep going.
16. From everything that has happened to me, I have learned a lesson: that there is no such thing as ‘the biggest mistake of your life’, and neither is there any such thing as ‘ruining your life’. It turns out that life is quite flexible
Sophie Kinsella gives us this phrase about how we can learn from mistakes.
17. I have learned that mistakes can often be good teachers of success.
Negative experiences help us learn about life.
18. The biggest mistake sometimes is playing very safe things in this life, which end up being moral failures.
Not taking risks or pursuing one’s dreams ends up being a bad option.
19. The biggest mistake people make is not making a living doing what they love most.
We spend many hours at work, not enjoying it makes us unhappy people.
20. The biggest mistake a woman can make is not being herself in public or private.
Letting yourself be influenced by the opinions of others is not a good choice.
21. My own success was assisted along the way by quite a few failures. But I refuse to make the biggest mistake of all: worrying too much about making mistakes.
Before becoming successful, many people have had to suffer before.
22. Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes
Experience is a good opportunity to grow.
23. I hope God allows me to turn my biggest mistake into my biggest success
A religious quote that deals with the mistakes of life.
24. Trying to avoid mistakes is the biggest mistake of all
Not making mistakes is unrealistic and, furthermore, it is an error in itself as this phrase states.
25. The biggest mistake any of us can make is to think that love is a feeling, that it is an emotion. It’s not that at all. It’s an action
Love is shown every day with actions, not with words.
26. One of the biggest human errors is believing that there is only one way
Alternative paths are those that help us learn from experience.
27. I think the biggest mistake is giving up too quickly.
If we throw in the towel prematurely we can make the serious mistake of achieving success.
28. If you fall seven times, get up eight times
A very popular saying that says that you have to recover from failures as soon as possible.
29. People often avoid decisions for fear of making a mistake. In reality, the inability to make decisions is one of the biggest mistakes in life.
Facing reality can cause anxiety for some people.
30. You build on your failure, you use it as a springboard. Close the door to your past. Don’t try to forget your mistakes, but don’t live in them. Don’t let them have any of your energy, your time or your space.
Living away from the present is not a good option and causes a lot of pain.
31. Gain wisdom and you will not make the same mistakes
If we reflect deeply on defeat, it is possible to achieve victory.
32. If we do not know our own history, then we will simply endure the same mistakes, the same sacrifices, the same absurdities over and over again.
Both self-knowledge and self-reflection are key to learning from experience.
33. He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery
Delicate situations can be unpleasant, but that unpleasantness can help us learn a lot.
34. I like my mistakes, I don’t want to give up the delicious freedom of making mistakes
Mistakes are key to our own personal development.
35. A realist is a man who insists on making the same mistakes his grandfather made.
It is unrealistic to believe that everything in this life will be perfect.
36. Take risks, make mistakes. That’s how you grow. Pain nourishes courage. You have to fail in order to practice bravery.
Personal growth is often determined by the negative experiences that mark us.
37. You can always find contradictions and hope in desperate circumstances, and a sense of redemption in someone who makes the same mistake over and over again.
Almost everything in this life has a solution. If this is not the case, then there is acceptance.
38. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to take advantage of them and strong enough to correct them
Some wise advice from John C. Maxwell on how to learn from experience.
39. Disputes would not last long if the error was on only one side.
A witty quote with a touch of irony.
40. He ridicules himself who is eternally repeating the same mistake
Making a mistake is not a problem. The bad thing is doing it over and over again.
41. The main trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them, especially from yourself.
Making mistakes is normal, therefore we should not hide reality but face it.
42. He who thinks little errs much
A quote from Leonardo da Vinci with a very pedagogical meaning.
43. Instead of denying when you make a mistake, you should become aware of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, because in some way they are.
There is no point in hiding from reality, because it is not going to disappear.
44. If you are not making any mistakes, you are not innovating. If you’re making the same mistakes, you’re not learning.
Making mistakes can lead us to be creative and look for innovative solutions.
45. A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Sometimes we make mistakes for fighting for what we desire with our soul.
46. Freedom is not worth it if it does not entail the freedom to err
Mahatma Gandhi did not leave this great quote to be remembered.
47. Mistakes are a way of reacting
Extreme situations can make us better people.
48. It would be a shame to stop now that I have started making good mistakes.
On the road to success there can always be ups and downs.
49. Man’s biggest mistake is that he thinks he does not deserve the good and the bad in his life.
A quote from the well-known Paulo Coelho. People sometimes see ourselves worse than we are.
50. Avoiding situations in which you could make mistakes may be the biggest of all mistakes.
We cannot live in the comfort zone constantly, just to avoid exposing ourselves to failure.
51. Geniuses don’t make mistakes. Their errors are always voluntary and lead to some discovery.
A quote that, with a touch of humor, deals with learning from mistakes.
52. Half of our mistakes in life come from the fact that when we should think, we feel, and when we should feel, we think.
Sometimes we want to have everything under control when we only have to live in the present.
53. There is not a single mistake that has not had its followers
John Locke leaves us this profound reflection full of meaning.
54. The biggest mistake is being too afraid to make one
Anticipating defeat leads us to immobilization.
55. Woe to those who are never lacking in reason! They are always wrong
Those who believe they possess the absolute truth are always wrong.
56. Your best teacher is your last mistake
There is no better teacher than the failures we can make in our lives.
57. Making a mistake and not correcting it is another mistake
Even in those things that go wrong for us, we can find great learning.
58. Mistakes obviously show us what we need to improve. Without errors, how would we know what we need to work on?
If we accompany our failures with self-reflection, it is possible to learn from them.
59. Assert your right to make some mistakes. If people can’t accept their imperfections it’s their fault.
There is no need to regret when things do not go as we wanted, because it is possible to get good things out of these unfavorable situations.
60. Make mistakes faster
A quote from Andy Grove that invites us to make mistakes.
61. Every time I make a mistake I seem to discover a truth that I didn’t know yet.
It may happen that our mistakes are a consequence of our limiting beliefs.
62. Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes
A great quote from Oscar Wilde that highlights the importance of making mistakes.
63. The mistake is a scribbled sheet that must first be erased
A witty reflection by Charles C. Colton comparing mistakes to a scribbled page.
64. It is an unfortunate thing to walk so without light in the procedure that the successes are due to chance, and a natural thing, the errors.
It is not always possible to get everything right in this life, but it is possible to improve little by little.
65. A failure is not always a mistake. It may simply be the best thing to do in those circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.
Failure is sometimes inevitable; but it is possible to learn from it.
66. I have also learned that the best lessons came from my biggest mistakes
A big mistake can be a big, positive change.
67. The shame of confessing the first mistake makes you commit many others
Not wanting to admit that we have made a mistake can be negative for ourselves. Even worse than the mistake itself.
68. He who gets lost is the one who finds new paths
Mistakes can help us find the right path.
69. When you grow up, you will discover that you have already defended lies, deceived yourself, or suffered for nonsense. If you are a good warrior, you will not blame yourself for it, but you will not let your mistakes be repeated either.
The great Pablo Neruda reflects on the mistakes we make in life and affirms that we do not possess the absolute truth.
70. Don’t waste a good mistake, learn from it
A way of saying that we should not waste life’s setbacks, but rather use them to our advantage.
71. A person who never made a mistake, never tried anything new
Leaving your comfort zone is the only way to achieve new things.
72. I have not gained wisdom, insight, or serenity. Today I would make all the same mistakes again
A reflection by Woody Allen, very faithful to his style.
73. An honest hand and a sincere heart can make mistakes; and the damage received can be harder to bear than the work of an enemy
We can be very hard on ourselves when we want something with all our might.
74. No one should commit the same nonsense twice, the choice is wide enough.
Jean-Paul Sartre. It is very difficult to always do the same things wrong.
75. The antidote to error is experience
Experience is what can help us not make the same mistakes, since we have all made them at some point.
76. When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate action to correct it.
Instead of staying sad after a mistake, it is much better to take action on it as soon as possible.
77. No one is guilty when everyone makes mistakes
When we all make mistakes, it seems that the error is minimal.
78. The biggest mistake in teaching in past centuries has been treating all students as if they were just variants of the same individual and therefore feeling justified in teaching everyone the same topics in the same way.
Howard Gardner, the defender of multiple intelligences, gives us this great phrase that talks about his theory.
79. A minimum error at the beginning can be a maximum at the end
What started as a small mistake can become a big one if we don’t remedy it.
80. History repeats itself. That is one of the mistakes of history
Charles Robert Darwin philosophizing about the history of living beings and our world.
81. In my next life I will make more mistakes
In this phrase, the poet and writer Jorge Luis Borges encourages us to live life without fear of making mistakes.
82. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
A maxim to live our life learning from all our mistakes.
83. The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing
A very optimistic way of conceiving the mistakes we make.
84. There are no errors or coincidences. All events are blessings to learn from.
By learning from everything that happens to us, we will be able to get the most out of life.
85. All men make mistakes but only the wise learn from them.
Learning from mistakes is the maxim that all wise men insist on throughout the history of humanity.
86. The night is darkest just before dawn.
A phrase from the movie “The Dark Knight” that reminds us that we should never lose hope no matter how difficult the current moment may be.
87. We were born to make mistakes and learn from them, not to pretend to be perfect people.
Human beings are imperfect and pure learning is based on error.
88. Those who have never made mistakes are because they have never tried to do new and different things.
One of the most important ideas that Albert Einstein contributed to the world of education and society in general.
89. To err is human, to persevere in mistakes is diabolical.
Continuing to make the same mistakes without finding an effective solution to the problem is a sign of low intelligence.
90. Great people are lost due to small mistakes.
Although an error may be considered small, it is important to correct it as much as possible whenever we can.
