Learning From Our Mistakes Quotes

President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now he would still do it again. So at least we’re learning from our mistakes.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they’re necessary to reach the places we’ve chosen to go.

It’s a curious thing about our industry: not only do we not learn from our mistakes, we also don’t learn from our successes.

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned…is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Mistakes, obviously, show us what needs improving. Without mistakes, how would we know what we had to work on?

We live and learn from our mistakes, the deepest cuts are healed by faith.

We all mess up. It’s what we learn from our mistakes that matters.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Hindsight is of little value in the decision-making process. It distorts our memory for events that occurred at the time of the decision so that the actual consequence seems to have been a “foregone conclusion.” Thus, it may be difficult to learn from our mistakes.

We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off – then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens.

Just as we can learn from our mistakes, we can gain character from our disappointments.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

No parent is perfect; we all can look back and think of things we could’ve done to help our children be better prepared for adulthood. And sometimes it’s best to admit it to them and encourage them to learn from our mistakes.

Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from our mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life.

I hope that in its richness, as well as in its incompleteness, Gyn/Ecology will continue to be a Labrys enabling women to learn from our mistakes and our successes, and cast our Lives as far as we can go, Now, in the Be-Dazzling Nineties.