Mistakes are the stepping stones to learning.

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

Source: As quoted by Jacob A. Riis in Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen (1904), chapter XVI A Young Men’s Hero.

Our mistakes and regrets are not barriers to becoming who we can be; they are a necessary ingredient.

Source: This quote is from “Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships” by David Schnarch.

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You have to learn from the mistakes of others. You won’t live long enough to make them all yourself.

Source: This quote or it’s variants are often attributed to Hyman G. Rickover, Eleanor Roosevelt, Samuel Levenson, and Lao Tzu, but no authentic source for these attributions is yet found.