Quotes About Repeating Past Mistakes

#1. Learning from history helps us avoid repeating its mistakes.

T.A. Uner

#2. I never want to repeat myself. I can't imagine anything else as upsetting as realizing I'm redoing something I did before. For some reason, when it comes to film, I'm very good at not repeating myself. Even though in the rest of my life, I'm constantly repeating my mistakes.

Doug Liman

#3. Let's face it, we're all imperfect and we're going to fall short on occasion. But we must learn from failure and that will enable us to avoid repeating our mistakes. Through adversity, we learn, grow stronger, and become better people.

John Wooden

#4. The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#5. We all make mistakes. It's human. Just learn from them. Repeating them and being aware of it is the dangerous bit.

Jessie J.

#6. Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have my doubts. The damage has been done. And as a lifelong student of history, it's quite evident that human beings don't learn from the mistakes of past generations.

Aaron B. Powell

#7. Always try to avoid repeating the same mistakes; the price that you have
to pay is often too high.

Eraldo Banovac

#8. Admitting your mistakes makes you humble. But not repeating your mistakes makes you clever.

Sarvesh Jain

#9. There is nothing wrong with making mistakes, but one should always make new ones. Repeating mistakes is a hallmark of dim consciousness.

Dave Sim

#10. The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.

Carl Joachim Friedrich

#11. 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

#12. Making mistakes is human ... repeating 'em is too.

Malcolm Forbes

#13. You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

John Scalzi

#14. History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time

Cressida Cowell

#15. Sexual preferences develop, evolve and change over a lifetime. [ ... ] Without opportunities for sexual exploration and discovery, how is a 19 to 20-year-old to learn what he or she likes and how his or her body reacts?

Darrel Ray

#16. There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again.

John Kramer

#17. God desires that Christians would avoid repeating the disobedient mistakes of the Israelites.

Sunday Adelaja

#18. In all of history, we have found just one cure for error - a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception. That antidote is criticism.

David Brin

#19. Knowledge unlocks the door to the mysteries of our mistakes; wisdom guides us away from repeating them. HS/el

Evinda Lepins

#20. 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

#21. Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.

Emil Cioran

#22. It is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#23. At the graveyard there was no hope, so there was nothing to lose and no chance for disappointment.

Calista Lynne

#24. Only a complete asshole would keep repeating the same old mistakes and blaming it on something else. Hell, we have all had it hard. It may not seem like it,

Sister Souljah

#25. The Allies had made war on Napoleon as a tyrant and an oppressor of nations; yet once they had got him out of the way, they did him the favor of representing him as the torchbearer of the French Revolution. They did him the further favor of repeating his mistakes and besting him at them.

J. Christopher Herold

#26. I remember that in '81, country radio was pretty pop, and everybody wanted a crossover record - and all of a sudden it came back to traditional. Now it's kind of swung the other way a little bit, but it always comes back.

George Strait

#27. I love you," I said in a low, intense voice. "I will always love you, no matter what happens now.

Stephenie Meyer

#28. Twitter hates tabloids, but Twitter is constantly acting like a tabloid, repeating the mistakes of the things we're hoping to better.

Jon Ronson

#29. I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.

William Shatner

#30. He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake.

Horace

#31. Apparently I am what is known as an Unreliable Narrator, though of course if you believe everything you're told you deserve whatever you get.

Iain M. Banks

#32. In 2003, Congress should have resisted the rush to a war of choice with Iraq. I will do everything in my power to prevent us from repeating the mistakes of my predecessors.

John Garamendi

#33. I saw an opportunist in banana-cake clothing. Let the record show, I did not roll my eyes. Schooling

Penny Reid

#34. 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

#35. I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging every day-get the best education they can, and couple that education with real-life experience in social justice work.

Julian Bond

#36. Visit with your predecessors from previous Administrations. They know the ropes and can help you see around some corners. Try to make original mistakes, rather than needlessly repeating theirs.

Donald Rumsfeld

#37. 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

#38. I don't like repeating mistakes, but sometimes, I think we're both forever stuck on a turntable.

Krista Ritchie

#39. I took a writing class in college, liked it, and my first year out of school I couldn't get a job, so I wrote a play.

Zoe Kazan

#40. If you conform, you can never reform.

Debasish Mridha

#41. For me to get an award from the press, I know there's been no favoritism.

Bobby Knight