Keith Waterhouse Quotes

Actually what I'd like is to have a reputation as someone who's been wild and gone straight, but without having to go through the trouble of being bad.

I feel in my own life I've made many mistakes. I've failed in many directions.

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

There's not too many times in life do you get a chance at redemption.

We stumble and fall constantly, even when we are most enlightened.

Everybody just needs a second chance.

I'll turn over a new leaf.

It is possible to begin again. It is hard, and we never do it perfectly, but it can be done.

Nobody's Perfect

Just think of yourself as starting from zero every time. That's what I do with every new role. I'm at zero, and I'm going to do the work.

Today I begin a new life. Today I shed my old skin which hath, too long, suffered the bruises of failure and the wounds of mediocrity. Today I am born anew and my birthplace is a vineyard where there is fruit for all.

Sometimes I wish we could rub out all of our mistakes and start fresh, from the beginning,' I said. 'And sometimes I think there isn't anything to us but our mistakes.

Just because somebody makes a mistake doesn't make them useless.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets.

Now, America is a land of second chances, and I gather you have room for the estimated 6 million of us who know we got it wrong in 2008 and who want to fix it.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

Do not take yourself too seriously. You have to learn not to be dismayed at making mistakes. No human being can avoid failures.

Being bad at stuff is hard, and we all deal with it every day because we're all bad at stuff.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

Divorce is never a pleasant experience. You look upon it as a failure. But I learned to be a different person once we broke up. Sometimes you learn more from failure than you do from success.

If I had to do my life over, I would change every single thing I have done.