Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

You shouldn't have regrets. I'd say instead that I've learned a lot of lessons. Yes, I could have handled some things better. But they've also made me who I am today.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

When you experience difficulty at work or in your life, instead of looking back on it as something that was really challenging, look at it and ask yourself, 'What wisdom did I learn from that?'

In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?

I think the greatest mistakes have been my greatest lessons.

You're 30: You know stuff now. Your 20s were for 'ducking up,' as my auto-correct would say, and learning from those mistakes. (For instance, never again will I convince myself that sleep is for sissies and go straight from a party to the airport. You will not 'sleep on the plane'; you'll vomit in the security line. Go to bed.)

"I won't apologize for my past. A man is supposed to have experience." "From all indications, you've acquired enough for ten men".

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

Experience increases our wisdom but doesn't reduce our follies.

Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

I learned from my past.

Every experience makes you grow.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

At 49, I can say something I never would have said when I was a player, that I'm a better person because of my failures and disgraces.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

I wouldn't change anything. I've made mistakes, but thanks to those mistakes, I've learned.

Life is a university, and you never graduate. Accept that whatever happens to you, no matter how terrible, is there to teach you. Your job is to learn and do what you have to.