Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
Rick Pitino

If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
Calvin Klein

I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
Fiona Apple

Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes.
Antisthenes

Often it takes some calamity to make us live in the present. Then suddenly we wake up and see all the mistakes we have made.
Bill Watterson

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones - which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones.
Sydney J. Harris

You make mistakes. Mistakes don't make you.
Maxwell Maltz

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
Al Gore

I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery. It's better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe. Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
Sophia Loren

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.
Edna St. Vincent Millay

Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.
Donald Rumsfeld

It isn't making mistakes that's critical; it's correcting them and getting on with the principal task.
Donald Rumsfeld

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.
Donald Rumsfeld

But these guys learn so fast now, they sort of soak up the information, they're fearless. Those are the guys who learn from their mistakes and come back strong the next time.
John McEnroe

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
Nikki Giovanni

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
Abu Abbas

Making mistakes is a lot better than not doing anything.
Billie Joe Armstrong

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