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It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

— Dale Turner

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

— Al Franken

Mistakes are not always the result of someone's ineptitude.

— Jessica Savitch

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

— Plutarch

I make mistakes. I say stupid things. I do idiotic things. And, quite frankly, I'm proud of them. Why not make mistakes?

— Mika

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

— Bruce Lee

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

— Bo Bennett

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.

— Richard Bach

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

— Peter McWilliams

✗Opposing Perspectives

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

— Katharine Graham