Tony Benn Quotes

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

However, I've learned in my life that life is about living authentically. And for me, the best moments as I look back in my life, that I became the best versions of Jeannie that I'm proud of, was when I was honest with myself.

There is no better teacher than life itself.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

Writing in a journal reminds you of your goals and of your learning in life. It offers a place where you can hold a deliberate, thoughtful conversation with yourself.

When I went to college, I met a new group of friends and looked back on my high-school experience and realized how much time I had wasted on trying to make myself something I wasn't.

I learned from my past.

After a long run of almost thirty years, you get to the point where you say, 'These are my concerns.' It's not so much this is what I set out to claim - it is a kind of refrain.

We have to really educate ourselves in a way about who we are, what our real identity is.

One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

I believe that any type of education can be great, but an education about ourselves can create something wonderful. I am a comedian, but people have called me a motivational speaker. I don't really consider myself that at all.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

As a teacher I realize that what one learns in school doesn't serve for very much at all, that the only thing one can really learn is self-understanding, and this is something that can't be taught.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

You learn a lot about yourself when you have success for a while. Like, a lot of things that you think are really important aren't. But you need that process.

My lyrics come from my experiences growing up in life, trying to find out and express who I am. That's basically it. I'm not trying to be a prophet or anything like that. I'm just reflecting on life.

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

I come out of real life.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

The responsibility of an artist is to be honest with themselves.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

My life is an open pamphlet.

You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.

I think you just learn so much about yourself over the years.