Looking for quotes about making mistakes in relationships? We have rounded up some of the best relationship mistake quotes, sayings, proverbs (with images and pictures) to encourage you to accept, learn and move on from the mistakes you’ve made. Be encouraged by the words of others regarding the errors you have made.
Also See: Failed Relationship Quotes
Whether is a relationship of love, friendship or family, you may have suffered cheating, betrayal, misunderstanding, disloyalty issues. It’s always good to save a relationship and clear the misunderstanding or rectify the mistake made. A second chance is well deserved in life long relationships. However, if you feel the mistake is repeated or the person is not guilty of his doing, then you may chose to end the relationship and move on in life.
Related: Forgiveness Quotes
Often, we needed the right guidance, support, or that little push, to help us forgive them, give them a second chance in the relationship or close that chapter and move on. Hope these inspirational quotes give you the wisdom and encouragement to act right.
Inspirational Relationship Mistake Quotes
- “Forgive yourself for what you didn’t know.” – Unknown
- “Don’t let past relationships ruin your future ” – Unknown
- “You’ve changed me forever. And I’ll never forget you.” – Kiera Cass
- “After someone hurts you, you’re not the same anymore.” – Unknown
- “If their absence brings you peace, you didn’t lose them.” – Jim Carrey
- “Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” – Tori Amos
- “And a mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” – Paulo Coelho
- “He offered her the world. She said she had her own.”- Monique Duval
- “Mistakes make you wiser, and failures make you stronger.” – Unknown
- “It’s better to be healthy alone than sick with someone else” – Phil McGraw
- “Never love a man so much that you ignore the truth about him.” – Unknown
- “I will rise. I will always rise. Don’t you doubt that even for a second.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes the love of your life comes after the mistakes of your life.” – Unknown
- “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” – Dan Brown, ‘Deception Point’
- “You’ve got to learn to leave the table when love’s no longer being served.” – Nina Simone
- “We ruined each other by being together. We destroyed each other’s dreams.” – Kate Chisman
- “When it comes to men, deal with them as they are, not how you’d like them to be.” – Greg Behrendt
- “If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.” – Criss Jami
- “Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “If you cheat on someone that is willing to do anything for you, you actually cheated yourself out of true loyalty.” – Unknown
Also See: Never Regret Quotes
Mistake Quotes About Relationships
- “It’s better to be single with high standards than in a relationship settling for less.” – Unknown
- “You stabbed me a thousand times and then acted as if you were the one that was bleeding.” – Unknown
- “A mistake is an accident. Cheating and lying are not mistakes, they are intentional choices.” – Unknown
- “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” – Steve Maraboli
- “One of the worst mistakes a woman can make is wasting years of her life waiting for a man to grow up.” – Unknown
- “She didn’t leave you for making too many mistakes, she left because you made the same mistake, too many times.” – Unknown
- “The problem is women think he will change, he won’t. The mistake men make is thinking she’ll never leave, She will.” – Unknown
- “Telling a woman you love her while hurting her soul and breaking her heart is emotional and psychological abuse. Stop!” – Unknown
- “It’s so weird thinking back to when I first met you and that moment I had no idea you would have such a big impact on me.” – Unknown
- “Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Never cry for the person who hurts you. Just smile and say, thank you for giving me a chance to find someone better than you.” – Unknown
- “What’s broken is broken — and I’d rather remember it as it was than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.” – Margaret Mitchell
- “You can never change your past, it’s already happened anyway. All I can do is make the best of today, let go, and keep moving on.” – Unknown
- “Secret and Lies kill a relationship. No matter how careful you are, you will get caught. What’s done in darkness always comes in light.” – Unknown
- “I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?” – Nicholas Sparks
- “When I truly care for someone, their mistakes never change my feelings because it’s the mind that gets angry but the heart still cares.” – Unknown
- “Your mistakes don’t define your character. It’s what you choose to do after you have made the mistakes that make all the difference.” – Unknown
- “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” – Criss Jami
- “Never leave a true relationship for a few faults. Nobody is perfect, nobody is correct, and in the end, affection is always greater than perfection.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes we have to remove people without warning. We’re getting too old to be explaining what they already know they’re doing wrong.” – Unknown
- “Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah
- “If you love two people at the same time, choose the second. Because if you really loved the first one, you wouldn’t have fallen for the second.”- Johnny Depp
- “If you’re not comfortable enough with yourself or with your own truth when entering a relationship, then you’re not ready for that relationship.” – Steve Maraboli
- “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” – C. JoyBell C.
- “Don’t mention a person’s past mistakes when they are trying to change. That’s like throwing rocks at them while they are struggling to climb a mountain.” – Unknown
- “Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness…I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.” – Al Capone
- “Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless. But you’re not worthless. You’re underappreciated.” – Steve Maraboli
- “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “Sorry works when a mistake is made, but not when trust is broken. So in life make mistakes but never break trust because forgiving is easy, but forgetting and trusting again is sometimes impossible.” – Unknown
- “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” – Joel Osteen
Quotes About Forgiveness In Relationship
- “Forgiveness leads to love.” – Unknown
- “To err is human, to forgive divine.” – Alexander Pope
- “Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.” – Josh McDowell
- “Forgiveness is the final form of love.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
- “Two key elements of relationships: Love and Forgiveness.” – Unknown
- “A happy relationship is made up of two good forgivers.” – Nicky Gumbel
- “Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.” – Bruce Lee
- “A relationship cannot last without a consistent practice of forgiveness.” – Unknown
- “The reality is people mess up, don’t let one mistake ruin a beautiful thing.” – Unknown
- “Love is an act of endless forgiveness, tender look which becomes a habit.” – Peter Ustinov
- “We all make mistakes. Don’t let that be the reason you give up on somebody.” – Unknown
- “Let’s face it. There was a difference between what you said and what you did.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes, you forgive people simply because you still want them in your life.” – Unknown
- “No matter how angry you get, you always end up forgiving the people you love.” – Unknown
- “When someone does something wrong, don’t forget all the things they did right.” – Unknown
- “Don’t punish the one in front of you, for the mistakes made by the one behind you.” – Unknown
- “If you avoid the conflict to keep the peace you start a war inside yourself.” – Cheryl Richardson
- “There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.” – Bryant H. McGill
- “More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren’t so busy denying them.” – Harold J. Smith
- “In a relationship, every day you love, and every day you forgive. It is an ongoing sacrament.” – Unknown
- “Relationships get stronger when both are willing to understand mistakes and forgive each other.” – Unknown
- “Being committed to practicing forgiveness is the key to creating relationships and a life filled with love.” – Unknown
- “To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.” – Robert Muller
- “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” – Steve Maraboli
- “Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person compliments each other.” – Unknown
- “Forgiveness is the best form of love. It takes a strong person to say a sorry and even stronger person to forgive.” – Unknown
- “To make a relationship work it takes a lot of forgiveness and hard work. You can’t just walk away when things get difficult.” – Unknown
- “Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have dealt.” – Ben Greenhalgh
- “A huge mistake we make in relationships is when we confuse a real person with the image of them we’ve created in our minds.” – Unknown
- “You don’t forgive people because you’re weak. You forgive them because you’re strong enough to know that people make mistakes.” – Unknown
- “If a person keeps coming back and you love each other enough to keep forgiving past mistakes, maybe you were really meant for each other.” – Unknown
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Mistake Quotes About Bad Relationship Images
- “A relationship with no arguments is a relationship with a lot of secrets.” – Unknown
- “I’m not a perfect person. I make a lot of mistakes. But I really appreciate those people who stay with me after knowing how I really am.” – Unknown
- “Never miss out on a good person that can make your life great because they’re a little difficult, the good ones never come easy.” – Unknown
- “All the mistakes I ever made in life were when I wanted to say NO and said YES.” – Moss Hart
- “The people that are quick to walk away are the ones who never intended to stay.” – Unknown
- “The greatest mistake we humans make in our relationships; “We listen half, understand quarter, think zero and react double”.” – Unknown
- “Don’t let mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Being single is better than being in a relationship with someone who fills your heart with doubt.” – Unknown
- “Don’t let past relationships ruin your future happiness.” – Unknown
- “If they don’t do it often, it isn’t a mistake; it’s just their behavior.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli
- “It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you.” – David Levithan
- “We repeat what we don’t repair.” – Christian Langley-Obaugh
- “Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.” – Unknown
- “Relationships are harder now because conversations become texting, arguments, become phone calls, and feelings become status updates.” – Unknown
- “If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow.” – Unknown
- “After all that we had we act like we had never met.” – Unknown
- “In a relationship you can’t just do what you want, you always have to think about the other person and that’s what people don’t understand.” – Unknown
- “People don’t accept their mistakes that’s why the relationships end. In the end you lose someone you love because of your pride.” – Unknown
- “None of us are perfect. We all make mistakes in relationships. So be careful how you judge the other person. Remember you’ve done things to hurt them as well.” – Unknown
- “Don’t worry about hard times because some of the most beautiful things we have in life come from changes and mistakes.” – Unknown
- “I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes.” ― Bill Kaulitz
- “I am forgiving myself, and moving on. The past hasn’t changed, but I have.” – Unknown
- “The best relationships are the ones that press on through the darkness. They are the people that look at each other and see the broke and hurt and say you are worthy.” – Unknown
- “You never lose by loving. You always lose by holding back.” – Barbara de Angelis
- “Don’t break up. Fix the problem. Start the romance again. Go on to dates again. Work on winning each other over again. This is why there are so many failed relationships. If you love each other and are best friends then breaking up is not the answer.” – Unknown
- “Don’t fight for their attention. If they really care. You shouldn’t have to.” – Unknown
- “If someone won’t lift a finger to call you, see you, and spend time with you, it’s time for you to lift 5 fingers and wave goodbye.” – Unknown
- “People break up all the time, mainly for the wrong reasons. They let the smallest things tear apart something so beautiful.” – Unknown
- “Not friends, not enemies, just strangers with some memories.” – Unknown
- “The wrong man makes you beg for attention, affection, love and commitment. The right man will give you these things because he loves you.” – Sonya Parker
- “A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.” – Paulo Coelho
- “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, relationships we were afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.” – Lewis Carroll
- “A strong relationship requires choosing to love each other, even in those moments when you struggle to like each other.” – Unknown
- “She didn’t leave you for making too many mistakes’, she left because you made the same mistake, too many times.” – Unknown
- “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you can’t change.” – Unknown
- “When someone makes a mistake, don’t forget about all the good they have done.” – Unknown
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