Denis Waitley Quotes

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

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

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

There's a lot of things in my past that wouldn't have necessarily been my choices but at the same time, going back in time and changing something, I wouldn't want to do that because I like where I came out.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

Keep in mind that people change, but the past doesn't.

Use your past as one of your mentors.

There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

Off the top of my head, I can't really think of anyone who really took me under their wing. You get advice from everyone. Kate Moss once said to me, "Don't worry about the past, just keep going." That has always sort of stuck with me.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.

I learned from my past.

I think the most important thing that I've learned is that you live and you learn. Try not to make the same mistakes twice.

I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life. I wouldn't say musically, though.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

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

I just can't believe all the things I did that decade.

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.