Why be afraid to make an honest mistake?

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

Do not fear mistakes.

I hope you'll make mistakes. If you're making mistakes, it means you're out there doing something.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

I have the courage to be mistaken.

Do I wanna do right, of course
but do I really wanna feel I’m forced
to answer you, hell no.
I’ve acquired quite a taste for a well-made mistake,
I wanna make a mistake.

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

But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live.

I may be wrong, and often am, but I never doubt.

I do a lot of apologising but deep down I'm a very confident man. I'm confident in the fact that I make a lot of mistakes. source

You see, we are so afraid to fail, to make mistakes, not only in examinations but in life. To make a mistake is considered terrible because we will be criticized for it, somebody will scold us. But, after all, why should you not make a mistake? Are not all the people in the world making mistakes? And would the world cease to be in this horrible mess if you were never to make a mistake? If you are afraid of making mistakes you will never learn. The older people are making mistakes all the time, but they don’t want you to make mistakes, and thereby they smother your initiative. Why? Because they are afraid that by observing and questioning everything, by experimenting and making mistakes you may find out something for yourself and break away from the authority of your parents, of society, of tradition. That is why the ideal of success is held up for you to follow; and success, you will notice, is always in terms of respectability.

I'm not afraid of not being, because being is everlasting.

I want a new mistake, lose is more than hesitate.