Top 100 Quotes About Past Mistakes
#1. When someone points out your past mistakes, look at them dead in the eyes and follow with, 'and I'd do it all again to have the life I have now.
Dan Pearce
#2. Death was hard, I got that, but it was only hard for those you left behind. Life was what was really difficult. Everyone here no longer had to suffer, be in pain, relive past mistakes. They were sleeping on, unaware of the problems around them. Death seemed like the easy way out. Life was harder.
Bailey Ardisone
#3. If something is buried in the past, leave it buried ... Such dwelling on past lives, including past mistakes, is just not right! It is not the gospel of Jesus Christ ... In cases of marriage and family, ... we can end up destroying so many others.
Jeffrey R. Holland
#4. The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
Marjorie Holmes
#5. We can't keep running from past mistakes...At some point, we need to accept what is, what was done, and move on.
Shelley Hrdlitschka
#6. No need to bend under the weight of past mistakes. That kind of bending breaks us.
Lysa TerKeurst
#7. Michael Jackson has an anti-Semitic streak, and hasn't learned from his past mistakes. It seems every time he has a problem in his life, he blames it on Jews.
Abraham Foxman
#9. 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 Saraswati
#10. 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
#11. You have to forgive yourself for your past mistakes, and you have to forgive those that hurt you for what they did to you, or you're never going to fully move on.
Jennifer Gracen
#12. Never let your past mistakes cause you to doubt your future
Jessica Houston
#13. 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
#14. For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result.
Stephen R. Covey
#16. I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.
Kapil Dev
#18. You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Waitley
#19. Bring it up, make amends, forgive yourself. It sounds simple, but don't think for a second that it is easy. Getting free from the tyranny of past mistakes can be hard work, but definitely worth the effort. And the payoff is health, wholeness and inner peace. In other words, you get your life back.
Steve Goodier
#20. I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.
Cary Elwes
#21. 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
#22. I feel like I've been victimised. It's because of who I am. I've done my time for past mistakes, if it wasn't me there wouldn't be a reaction.
John Hopoate
#23. But the amazing thing about life, I've finally discovered, is that you really don't learn from past mistakes. You do logically, reasonably, but emotionally not for a second.
Lauren Bacall
#24. You are more than the choices that you've made,
You are more than the sum of your past mistakes,
You are more than the problems you create,
You've been remade.
Tenth Avenue North
#25. I want her to be happy, and she's most happy with you. Maybe this will make up for ... past mistakes." He shook his head and returned to his normal idiocy. "So, either you say, 'Sure, I'd love to have you along,' or you have a big bird dropping things on your head the whole trip.
Julie Kagawa
#26. The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself for past mistakes - continually condemning himself for past sins.
Maxwell Maltz
#27. Shock equals discovery, and if I narrated my past, you'd be pretty grossed out too, I bet - same as if you narrated yours. Aren't we all composed of our past mistakes? Isn't that part of emerging into an adult awareness of the world?
D.T. Max
#28. If you aim to be the best then it's essential to evolve constantly, learn from past mistakes, look for new opportunities and have the flexibility to implement improved processes and solutions along the way.
Mark Gallagher
#29. Perspective is a kind of mental sunblock that, provided we apply it properly, prevents us from getting burned by past mistakes.
Steve Leveen
#30. 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
#31. Past mistakes cannot create a present pain; no mistake in life has the power to make us ache any more than the echo of someone crying can shed tears.
Guy Finley
#32. Love covers all shortcomings and failures, overlooks one's mistakes and does not bring to mind one's past mistakes - My Last Letter, Chapter 1
Santosh Avvannavar
#33. The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one's own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
George Orwell
#34. Live. How many of us need to be reminded that living has nothing to do with trying to be as good as someone else, or trying to fit into some category, or filling in the blanks on some stupid checklist. That it has nothing to do with punishing yourself for past mistakes.
Suzanne Selfors
#35. Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dale Turner
#36. The Original Quote was:- THOSE WHO FORGET PAST MISTAKES ARE DOOMED TO REPEAT THEM... It was never (as other quotes read)- 'those who forget the past are doomed' - why would we forget the past, that quote makes no sense...
Mel Jones
#37. What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"
"Many," Skuduggery said.
Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes."
"Or make brand-new ones.
Derek Landy
#38. Being around him felt like being around someone who saw your scars and called them beautiful when you only saw your past mistakes.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#39. Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida
#40. Concerning mistakes, follow three simple rules. Firstly, correct a mistake that you made whenever it is possible. Secondly, don't repeat the same mistakes. Thirdly, learn from past mistakes.
Eraldo Banovac
#41. Learn from your experiences and past mistakes, assimilate them and convert them to formulas to achieve sustenance first , and then work your way to success to be the leaders in the market.
Henrietta Newton Martin
#42. I saw Lord Sabaoth (The Lord of Hosts) assign the angel hosts to go to bloodlines and command familiar and familial spirits to back off and quit speaking from past mistakes and past reproaches.
Chuck Pierce
#43. The two most important phrases in the human language are "If only" and "Maybe someday". Our past mistakes and our unrequited longings. The things we regret and the things we yearn for. That's what makes us who we are.
Will Ferguson
#44. Do not cry over the past mistakes. Laugh over the events in time. Make things right now.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#45. Learning your lesson from a mistake is healthy, but living forever in the emotions of your past mistakes is toxic and debilitating.
Bryant McGill
#46. Don't let past mistakes keep you from seeking God
Billy Graham
#47. My biggest past mistakes have been when I made decisions out of ego rather than spirit. When I acted too quickly. When I wasn't contemplative or reflective or prayerful enough, and I ended up making what I would only later see to be unwise decisions.
Marianne Williamson
#48. In each of us there is internal knowledge, a gentle voice, beckoning us
toward well-being. It tells us to let go, to stay in the river of present experience, not to dam up our lives by worrying about potential futures or bemoaning past mistakes.
Marcey Shapiro
#49. I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.
Malorie Blackman
#50. To undo mistakes is always harder than not to create them originally, but we seldom have foresight. Therefore, we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#51. I was reckless and crazy and I never learned from my past mistakes. Ever.
Debra Dunbar
#52. 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
#53. Don't let past mistakes make you lose hope of achieving good. Some of those with the worst past have made a great future for themselves.
Mufti Ismail Menk
#54. Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.
Bryant McGill
#55. It's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.
Warren Buffett
#57. There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.
Sean Brady
#58. [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
#59. Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.
Harvey MacKay
#60. How can I stand here forgiven and free of all my past mistakes, and not forgive you?
Arlene James
#61. 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
#62. A Way Out
Do you know what it is like to lie in bed awake;
with thoughts to haunt you every night, of all your past mistakes.
Knowing sleep will set it right - if you were not to wake.
Lang Leav
#63. The pale fabric of reality has so many hidden pockets that we can find some change in here somewhere - you just have to dig a little deeper to avoid the chewing gum and past mistakes.
Corey Taylor
#64. She felt her in her heart all the time now, yearning for her lost love and lamenting for past mistakes. The Lady's grief was overwhelming sometimes, making Sofia sad for no reason at all, especially at night when the world around her grew quiet and there were no distractions.
Effrosyni Moschoudi
#65. Get rid of your doubts. Yesterday is dead. Past mistakes are like smoke in the breeze.
David Gemmell
#66. You must also forgive yourself. You must forgive yourself for any past mistakes and failures that you cannot forget.
Laura Aranda
#67. Do not be ready to listen to anyone who is ready to show you your past mistakes instead, be ready to listen to someone who is ready to show you the untold lessons from your past mistakes so that you may be able to skip your future mistakes
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#68. There is no undoing it, there's only learning from it, becoming stronger because of I, and moving forward to better it
(they speak of past mistakes)
Amelia Hutchins
#69. Knowledge is not the same as morality, but we need to understand if we are to avoid past mistakes and move in productive directions. An important part of that understanding is knowing who we are and what we can do ... Ultimately, we must synthesize our understandings for ourselves.
Howard Gardner
#70. From this moment forward ... I stop the blame game and excuses. I am responsible for my life and for where I am today. I cannot blame the people and circumstances in my past, and I refuse to hide behind my past mistakes.
Lance Wubbels
#71. We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
King Hussein
#72. Well, have you even tried again? You can't just sit around waiting for the new world to take it with you. You have to go out and be part of it - despite your past mistakes.
Markus Zusak
#73. There was no correcting past mistakes, especially since he could see no real 'mistakes' he had made. He had done the best he could, and that had proven insufficient.
Brandon Sanderson
#74. As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.
Sarah Strohmeyer
#75. 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
#76. We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
Carl Levin
#77. I could never do a job that entailed complicating people's lives
Frank Healy
#78. No matter where we are today or what mistakes we've made in the past, He has given us everything we need to glorify Him right now.
Joshua Harris
#79. There comes a time when you have to confront your past, chuckle at your mistakes, pick up your peace and KEEP marching forward.
Alexandra Elle
#80. You are not the mistakes of your past, but the resources and capabilities that you have gleaned from your past.
Jordan Belfort
#81. Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.
Harvey MacKay
#82. I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.
Lindsay Lohan
#83. Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
A.J.P. Taylor
#84. Everyone says that you should live like there is no tomorrow, but I think it's even more important to live like there is no yesterday. Your future means so much more than your past.
John A. Ashley
#85. 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
#86. A garden is a result of an arrangement of natural materials according to aesthetic laws; interwoven throughout are the artist's outlook on life, his past experiences, his affections, his attempts, his mistakes and his successes.
Roberto Burle Marx
#87. People don't need to know what Albert Belle is thinking. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, and that's what's made me a better person.
Albert Belle
#88. No matter your past or your future, the depth of your sin or the mistakes that you've made, the weariness of your soul or the obstacles in your path, you can experience God's love right here, right now, right where you are. And that's the beauty of grace.
Dawn Camp
#89. A lot of mistakes, but all of them in the past. Some made with worthy intentions, some without. When you live a long time you get to collect a lot of mistakes.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#90. You can only forgive yourself for the mistakes you made in the past once you know you'll never make them again.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
#91. Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future.
Audrey Phillips
#92. Mistakes from our collective past are like any other: they require intervention--a remedy--to correct. They don't erase themselves over time.
Jonathan R. Miller
#93. Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.
Zig Ziglar
#94. Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.
Charlaine Harris
#95. There had been a time in Godfrey's life when, had she stood before him in all her splendor, he would have turned from her, because of her history, with a sad disgust. Was he less pure now? He was more pure, for he was humbler.
George MacDonald
#96. I think of Josie's theory that it's all interrelated, that it all goes back to that night in December, all of our decisions and dreams and mistakes from the past inextricably linked.
Emily Giffin
#97. I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
Cindy Crawford
#99. Learn from the past, be thankful for the past, forgive the mistakes of the past, and let it go.
Debasish Mridha
#100. I shall stay and tell my tale, hope that it may serve some purpose, that eyes shall see it and learn, that the future will not repeat the mistakes of the past. That is my prayer, but what use is prayer to a god that has abandoned all things . . .
John Gwynne
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