Michelle Waterson Quotes

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.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

Apart from writing books, my 40s have been about pursuing personal growth. Whatever were the mistakes of my earlier life, I've been committed to a pause, a regroup. I don't want to make the same mistakes in the future.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.

Sometimes when you look back, you think I wish I would have played this hand differently or that hand differently. But then you have to understand that you can't go back and to focus on the present. Whether or not you're applying the lessons you've learned from mistakes you've made in the past.

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

It's not just that the lows make the highs more meaningful. They actually help you figure stuff out. You have to work out where you went wrong and what you need to do to get better.

I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

Something good happens or something bad, I think, 'What can I do better? What didn't I do this year?'

All of us from time to time look back and think we could've handled things differently or better.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.'

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

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

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

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

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

We have all examined our past critically and are very much aware of even the unpleasant things. Now, we need to look at what we plan to do with the lessons we have learned from the past.

I do believe that when you know better, you do better. You know what was wrong about the last relationship, and hopefully you will do better the next time.