“Mistakes are proof that you are trying”

“Mistakes are proof that you are trying” is a motivational saying that has been printed on many images. “Mistake…That’s proof that you were trying to do something” was printed in a 1959 newspaper.
 
“Mistakes are proof that you’re trying” was printed in a 2002 newspaper. “Mistakes are proof that you are trying” was printed in a 2005 newspaper. Authorship is unknown.
       
“Mistakes just mean you’re trying” and “Making mistakes does not mean you’re a failure. It just means you’re trying and learning in life” are related sayings from 2011.
   
           
15 October 1959, Battle Creek (MI) Enquirer and News, “The Watchman,” sec. 3, pg. 6, col. 1:
Mistake…That’s proof that you were trying to do something.
   
Google Books
Parenting
By Jane B. Brooks
Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing Company
1997
Pg. 78:
Mistakes are proof that the child is trying to do something but may not be quite ready to achieve the goal. Mistakes are incompletions, not failures.
 
5 August 2002, Daily Press (Newport News, VA), pg. A8, col. 3:
TRAFFIC TALK
“Mistakes are proof that you’re trying.”
So learn from your mistakes, and dust yourself off and try again.
     
6 September 2005, Daily Mail (London, UK), “It’s a man’s world,” pg. 46:
MISTAKES are proof that you are trying.
Mrs M. Shrive, Mansfield, Notts.
 
Twitter
Francis Orante
@shdowchsr
Mistakes are proof that you are trying…
3:51 AM - 21 Nov 2007
 
Twitter
lulablue
@lulablue
Bumper sticker: mistakes are proof that you are trying.
10:21 PM - 22 Jun 2008
     
Google Books
Title Mistakes Are Proof That You Are Trying: Coloring Book
Volume 2 of Doodle Art Alley Books
Illustrated by Samantha Snyder
Publisher aka associates, 2015
ISBN 0692459928, 9780692459928
Length 104 pages
   
Google Books
The Creative Fight:
Create Your Best Work and Live the Life You Imagine
By Chris Orwig
Peachpit Press
2015
Pg. ?:
As the cliché goes, “Mistakes are proof that you are trying.”
 
Google Groups: Flamy’s Daily Quote
Quote of the Day 07/19/17
Amy
7/19/17
Mistakes are proof that you are trying.
 
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Amazing Facts
@FactSoup
Mistakes are proof that you’re trying.
5:24 PM - 23 Apr 2018