it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones. — Warren Buffett
Everyone makes mistakes - mistakes are correctable. — T. B. Joshua
Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice. — Allen Iverson
We all make mistakes, and it is better to make them before we begin. — Nikola Tesla
I've made mistakes in my life for sure. — Kim Kardashian
Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. — L.M. Montgomery
Mistakes are the necessary steps in the learning process; once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten and not repeated. — Vince Lombardi
Some of the best lessons we ever learn we learn from our mistakes and failures. — The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. — Tryon Edwards
If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake. — Plato
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. — Christian D. Larson
Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice. — Lee Iacocca
We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward. — Alison Croggon
Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. — Bruce Lee
We all make mistakes, and it's not until we make mistakes that we learn. — Liam Hemsworth
When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it. — Dalai Lama
Everyone makes mistakes. Nobody's perfect. — Japanese Proverbs
But make sure you don't make the same mistake twice. — Akio Morita
Past Mistakes Image Quotes
You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
Learning From Past Mistakes Quotes
It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future. — Alan Paton
History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won. — William H. Hastie
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes. — George Orwell
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. — Alfred Sheinwold
If you want to avoid making the same mistakes twice, make more decisions based on your past memories and fewer decisions based on your current emotions. — Steven Bartlett
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. — Johnny Cash
Don't let the past steal your present. Your past has not defined, deterred or defeated you. It has only strengthened who you are today.
I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot. — R. Lee Ermey
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it. — Walt Disney
During the past five years, I've learned that time flies faster than you think, and because you only live once you have to learn from your mistakes, live your dreams and be accountable. — Lindsay Lohan
The error of the past is the wisdom of the future. — Dale E. Turner
Repeating Past Mistakes Quotes
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. — Sivananda
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. — Sri Swami Sivananda
The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors. — Lu Xun
When thinking about life, remember this: no amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of anxiety can change the future.
[To the House of Representatives before casting the only vote against allowing George W. Bush to use 'all necesary and appropriate force' in response to 9/11:] We must be careful not to embark on an open-ended war with neither an exit strategy nor a focused target. We cannot repeat past mistakes. — Barbara Lee
Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. — Harvey Mackay
To avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, an alert citizenry today should take the trouble to learn how easy it can be for a powerful minority to manipulate information to win the support-or the indifference-of the majority towards an action. — Randal Marlin
A mistake repeated more than once is a decision.
We cannot live in the past; it is gone. Nor can we live in the future; it is forever beyond our grasp. We can live only in the present. If we are unaware of our present actions, we are condemned to repeating the mistakes of the past and can never succeed in attaining our dreams for the future. — S. N. Goenka
Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Forget Past Mistakes Quotes
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. — Johnny Cash
Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard
Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary. — Norman Vincent Peale
It's not the future that you're afraid of. It's repeating the past that makes you anxious.
But life isn’t about learning to forgive those who have hurt you or forgetting your past. It’s about learning to forgive yourself for being human and making mistakes. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger. — Norman Vincent Peale
It has become too easy to see that the luckless men of the past lived by mistakes, even absurd beliefs, so we may well fail in a decent respect for them, and forget that historians of the future will point out that we too lived by myths. — Herbert J. Muller
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
Promise yourself you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible. Promise to think only of the best, to work only for the best, and to expect only the best in yourself and others. Promise to forget the mistakes of the past and press on to greater achievements in the future. — John Wooden
Your Past Mistakes Quotes
Stop thinking about your past mistakes. Stop worrying about what the future holds. Start focusing on what you can do now. — Patrick Bet-David
Just for today, allow yourself to embrace all that you are every moment. Know that you are a vessel of light. Allow yourself to release all doubts about your ability, the mistakes of the past, the fear of the future. — Iyanla Vanzant
I believe that you go through your past and you learn what you learn for whatever reason. I'm just glad I'm not making fifteen-year-old mistakes at twenty-six - I got that out of the way. — Wiz Khalifa
Forget the mistake. Remember the lesson.
You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past. — Jordan Belfort
The past can be a rudder that guides you or an anchor tha hinders you. Leave your mistakes with God and look to the future by faith. — Warren W. Wiersbe
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future. — Steve Maraboli
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress. You're still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on. — Les Brown
The past doesn't define you, your present does. It's okay to create a vision of the future because it affects your behavior in the "now," but don't dwell on past mistakes. Learn from them and focus those lessons in the moment. That's where change can really happen. — Jillian Michaels
Yesterday is history, but if you don't learn from your past mistakes you will continue to make the same mistakes. Tomorrow isn't a mystery. Go after your goals with every breathe you take, and the future is far from being a mystery. Today isn't a gift. You have to earn it every day. — Steve Kaufman
Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them. — Dan Mckinnon
Life Mistakes Quotes
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. — George Bernard Shaw
No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying. — Tony Robbins
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself, and know that everything in life has purpose. There are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings given to us to learn from. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It's their mistake, not my failing. — Richard P. Feynman
Life's a test, mistakes are lessons, but the gift of life is knowing that you have made a difference. — Tupac Shakur
Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life. — T. D. Jakes
If you are depressed, you are living in the past. If you are anxious, you are living in the future. If you are at peace, you are living in the present.
Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live! — Alfred Adler
The only mistake in life is the lesson not learned. — Albert Einstein
My life, my choices, my mistakes, my lessons- NOT YOUR BUSINESS. — Wiz Khalifa
Ever make mistakes in life? Let's make them birds. Yeah, they're birds now. — Bob Ross
Past Failures Quotes
If you worry about yesterday's failures, then today's successes will be few. The future depends on what we do in the present — Mahatma Gandhi
I believe the single most significant decision I can make on a day-to-day basis is my choice of attitude. It is more important than my past, my education, my bankroll, my successes or failures, fame or pain, what other people think of me or say about me, my circumstances, or my position. — Charles R. Swindoll
By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit. — Albert Ellis
Failure is temporary. Move quickly past it. What lies beyond the failure is the lesson. — Tom Bilyeu
Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction. — Charles J. Givens
We define ourselves far too often by our past failures. That’s not you. You are this person right now. You’re the person who has learned from those failures. Build confidence and momentum with each good decision you make from here on out and choose to be inspired. — Joe Rogan
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. — William Saroyan
Live today. Remove all blame from your vocabulary. Catch yourself when you find yourself using your past history as a reason for your failure to act today, and instead say, 'I am free now to detach myself from what used to be.' — Wayne Dyer
We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success. — Frances E. Willard
My Mistakes Quotes
Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength. — Dalai Lama
I make mistakes every day. I'm not perfect in my behavior, but I want to be and that's what God is after, a heart that wants to be. — Joyce Meyer
If someone can prove me wrong and show me my mistake in any thought or action, I shall gladly change. I seek the truth, which never harmed anyone: the harm is to persist in one's own self-deception and ignorance. — Marcus Aurelius
I've also learned that the biggest lessons came from my biggest mistakes. — Gurbaksh Chahal
I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain. — Johnny Cash
Is it strange for me to say that if I were to die today, there’s not a thing I would change? I’ve lived well. Maybe I have made mistakes and been through my fair share of pain but all in all, it’s been okay. I’ve lived well. — Jhene Aiko
Destiny made a mistake and gave my fate to someone else. — Joe Budden
I'm never satisfied. I'm always trying to get better and learn from my mistakes. — Russell Westbrook
I have learned from my mistakes, and I am sure I can repeat them exactly — Peter Cook
It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile. — Garry Marshall
Past Wrongs Quotes
I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people. — Tyga
I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people. — Wiz Khalifa
I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past. — Bubba Watson
Love doesn't keep a score of wrongs. Love doesn't bring up past failures. (1 Cor 13:5) — Gary Chapman
Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets. — Jared Leto
It's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out. — Khaled Hosseini
The objector and the rebel who raises his voice against what he believes to be the injustice of the present and the wrongs of the past is the one who hunches the world along. — Clarence Darrow
We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong. — Karl Popper
I thank the Lord that, even though things were so wrong in my life here, I finally was brought to the realization of what all those struggles were about. There are some wonderful things from your painful past, things with a beauty you may not have realized at the time. — Ravi Zacharias
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth. — Charles Kingsley
The biggest mistake of past centuries in teaching has been to treat all students as if they were variants of the same individual and thus to feel justified in teaching them all the same subjects the same way. — Howard Gardner
I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. — Paul the Apostle
I don’t know how to save the world. I don’t have the answers or The Answer. I hold no secret knowledge as to how to fix the mistakes of generations past and present. I only know that without compassion and respect for all of Earth’s inhabitants, none of us will survive—nor will we deserve to. — Leonard Peltier
The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it. — Ernest Holmes
Even the mistakes, even everything bad that happened, I wouldn’t change because then I wouldn’t be the person that I am today. The past is the past. I just want to focus on the future, and getting better, not making the same mistakes and just becoming a better person, a better artist. Just a better everything. — Jay Park
No matter how many mistakes you've made in the past, or what sort of difficulties you struggle with now, you are destined to live in victory. — Joel Osteen
Every generation thinks they are stronger than the generation before it. They think, "It can't happen to me." In the past people have died making that same mistake. — Lemmy Kilmister
We should not lay all past mistakes on Chairman Mao. So we must be very objective in assessing him. His contributions were primary, his mistakes secondary. In China, we will inherit the many good things in Chairman Mao's thinking while at the same time explaining clearly the mistakes he made. — Deng Xiaoping
Financial history is the most important thing to study for anyone seeking to avoid the mistakes of the past. — Russell Napier
A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened. — George Orwell
As we become more mature we will learn to master the interplay between the past and the present and not be so self-conscious of our rejection or acceptance of tradition. We will not make the mistake that both rigid modernists and conservatives make, of confusing the quality of form with the specific forms themselves. — Alvin Lustig
The biggest mistake investors make is to believe that what happened in the recent past is likely to persist. They assume that something that was a good investment in the recent past is still a good investment. Typically, high past returns simply imply that an asset has become more expensive and is a poorer, not better, investment. — Ray Dalio
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future. — Saint Augustine
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them. — Lillian Hellman
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. — Marie Louise
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes. — Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly. There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. — Buddha
I've never made a mistake. I've only learned from experience. — Thomas A. Edison
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices. — Carl Levin
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