Peter Cook Quotes

I was shaped by my mistakes.

The same mistakes can never be repeated.

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

Sulking about your mistakes only leads to future ones.

Progress is the exploration of our own error.

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

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

The show is 'Fix My Life!' Get it? Life. I do not fix people.

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

It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers - they help us to learn.

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

You grow up by making mistakes. I've made a ton of them, but as long as I keep on failing better, I don't mind.

A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.

Always be yourself... unless you suck.

If one doesn’t examine one’s mistakes and look back, how else does one have vision?

I'm grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make.

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

As a kid, falling was embarrassing. As I got older, I got used to falling and picking myself back up. There's not a sense of failure. It's of disappointment. You train so hard to not make mistakes. When you do, you're learning from that. How do I improve? How do I get better for the next time? Through every failure, there's something to be learned.

I've made a lot of mistakes in my life, but I think that's normal for someone who wants to grow and develop. You will have to overcome plenty of obstacles, and it is normal that you should stumble sometimes.