How Mistakes Make Life Interesting

• An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.
Orlando A. Battista

• Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.
Arthur Guiterman

• "Picking up the pieces when they fall" begins a journey to living anew with love, courage, and hope for a brightfuture.
Steve Brunkhorst, from When Dreams Get Shattered: Picking Up the Pieces

• Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.
Ross Perot

• Only he who does nothing makes a mistake.
French Proverb

• To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Peter McWilliams

• Your mistake does not define who you are - you are your possibilities.
Oprah Winfrey

• Be thankful for your mistakes. They will teach you valuable lessons.
Author Unknown, from Be Thankful

• Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.
Denis Waitley

• The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
William Connor Magee

• If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Mary Pickford