Making Mistakes To Achieve Success Mistakes are the Mother of Success: But what does this really mean?Developing confidence is an important part of learning a language. I am a firm believer that mistakes are an important part of any learning cycle. As Henry Ford famously said: "I don't make mistakes, I learn too much from them". In the case of English as second language these wise words have so much truth attached to them....... Similar Editorial : by Heidi Richards. | Source : Italian Courses