Top 25 Past Mistakes Quotes

Fifty years ago, historians advised politicians and policy-makers. They helped chart the future of nations by helping leaders learn from past mistakes in history. But then something changed, and we began making decisions based on economic principles rather than historical ones. The results were catastrophic.

Annalee Newitz

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

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Denis Waitley

There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.

Sean Brady

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’m learning from my past mistakes and trying to correct them as I move forward. Experience at the international level has probably taught me what it takes to probably go out there and get a 100 or to build an innings or to win a game.

Rohit Sharma

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

When I look back at my past mistakes, I realise that there were times when I wasn’t myself, and that’s why certain styles did not work well for me.

Yami Gautam

I don’t look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

Kapil Dev

For better or worse, I refuse to live my life with regret. Sometimes, I’ll look back on my past mistakes with fondness. But I never wished I wouldn’t have made them. That’s why I don’t like re-takes.

Takashi Miike

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

Denis Waitley

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

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