Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes

I love to talk to children about making mistakes. It's important that I tell them about how I don't get it right the first time. We live in such a perfectionist society, and they see so many finished products and polished performances.

It's okay to make mistakes as long as you learn from them.

If you didn’t make mistakes you wouldn't get far.

I've made so many mistakes. But it is my feeling that you learn from failures, so I welcome them as often as I can.

One important lesson is this: It is okay to try and fail at something, but it isn't okay to not try. Parents need to encourage their kids, and it all starts in the home.

Mistakes are nothing to be ashamed of.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

I disagree with people who think you learn more from getting beat up than you do from winning.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

I'm very good at making mistakes, so I realized that I should embrace mistakes and learn from them.

One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

I recall that my workshop leaders were tactful in their ways of acquainting me with my shortcomings as a writer. So much so that I hardly realized they were doing it. I want always to keep that sort of thing in mind when I'm teaching. The way you get better in everything in this life is to make mistakes. Otherwise you're probably doing it right by accident. But you have to do everything wrong before you can really start with some authority to do it right.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

I think some parents now look at a youngster failing as the final thing. It's a process, and failure is part of the process. I would like it if the teacher and the parents would connect more. I think that used to be, but we're losing a little bit of that right now.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

Look, you have to make mistakes. That's how you learn and that's how the world works.

I have a lot of insecurities, but you learn from your failures.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Look, you do the bloody well best you can. You fumble. You make mistakes.

If children can't handle competition when it's necessary, or take some criticism, or never strive to be better because their parents inadvertently programmed them to believe they are already the best even when they're not, then they are in for some serious shocks and bumps down the road.

There were times when I blundered and got the dreaded look from the lads. But that was a good sign. It showed I'd attempted something I'd not tried before.

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.

You can always say, 'I wish I had landed that triple flip better, or I wish I didn't fall.' They're not regrets, just mistakes.

Some are very hostile if mistakes are pointed out. I'm not. If I make a mistake, I make a mistake.

Of course it's important to make mistakes, as long as you grow from them.