Brennan Manning Quotes

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

When I was younger, I made some decisions that I shouldn't have. And, in hindsight, I've almost always been wrong when I haven't listened to myself.

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

One of the things you don't always realize when you're younger is that not everything you try is going to work.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I remember some of the biggest mistakes I have made really, really well.

Everyone makes mistakes along the way, but we learn from our mistakes.

I bet you that we all learn from our mistakes. I've learned from my mistakes in the past, too.

I think, like anyone else, I made my mistakes.

I have made my mistakes and learnt from those.

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

I need to make mistakes, just to learn (who i am)

signs are an extremely personal language that we develop throughout our lives, by trial and error, until we begin to understand that God is guiding us.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Life is a cruel teacher. She loves to give you the test first and the lesson later.

The really important thing in life is not the avoidance of mistakes, but the obedience of faith. By obedience, the man is led step by step to correct his errors, whereas nothing will ever happen to him if he doesn't get going.

Is a little experience too much to pay for learning to know oneself?

Everything important I learned, I learned as a dishwasher.

Every failure is a step to success. Every detection of what is false directs us towards what is true: every trial exhausts some tempting form of error.

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.

Most of the worst errors I made in my life came from forgetting to act small.

What looks like a failure teaches us what not to do, what does not work. We have lessons to learn from our experiences.

Looking at my life was very difficult. I think I learned that I haven't been as good a person as I'm inclined to think of myself as. I haven't been as good friend, haven't been as good a person, made a lot of mistakes.