Richard Bach Quotes

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

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.

I learned from my past.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

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

There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

As you have learnt something of time, value and make a proper use of it. Once past, it knows no return; how necessary, then, that you spend it in improving your mind and fitting it for future happiness and usefulness.

In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

There's a lot of things I could've done better, and I regret not doing better. I do know I always gave it my best shot.

I do reflect on it sometimes, going, 'Wow, if I knew what I knew now I would be such a better server.'

If I don't do something constructive every day, I feel like I have wasted my time, and I almost feel guilty for not doing something I could have learned from.

I've made a lot of dumb mistakes, but I don't regret them at all.

Every twist and turn in life is an opportunity to learn something new about yourself, your interests, your talents, and how to set and then achieve goals.

If you regret anything in your life, then you haven't learned any lessons.

As you get older, you grow and mature, and that should never stop. As soon as you stop growing, you're done living. I'll always be growing, forever learning, forever taking in advice from people I deeply respect.

I think everyone in their 30s looks back at their 20s and thinks, 'Oh God, if I'd just done this and this, and not done that.'

I think it's important how you spend your time. I try to make sure that I'm growing.

Good advice I always hated, but lookin back it made me greater.

With a little study you'll go a long ways, and I wish you'd start now

I wasn't at all focused on school, and I didn't achieve much. But I've got a sense of urgency now. I feel I can't let any more time waste away.

Did you do every single thing you could today, to be your best?

We do not know today whether we are busy or idle. In times when we thought ourselves indolent, we have afterwards discovered that much was accomplished, and much was begun in us.