Peter Hain Quotes

No excuses and no sob stories. Life is full of excuses if you're looking. I have no time to gripe over misfortune. I don't waste time looking back.

When you face up to bad things in the past, the most important thing is not to allow them to happen today or in the future, and as storytellers, we must play our part in that.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

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

It's not the time to look for excuses.

I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It's a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process.

I've never particularly liked the idea of looking back; I'd rather look forward.

You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

I have been looking forward to this age of my life for a long time. In my twenties, I marked the days on the calendar - I was sick of playing high-school kids.

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.

It is easier to criticize than to correct our past errors.

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.

I have no regrets. I don't believe in looking back. What I am proudest of? Working really hard... and achieving as much as I could.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

Come up with a few examples from the Bible – or from history, or from whatever – that kind of show, you know, how when you've made a mess, you can do the best you can to clean it up, you make it right the best you can, and you keep going.

Hopefully, through all aspects of life, you learn from things you've got right, things you've got wrong, but I'm not one for looking back. I'm looking ahead; you've got to.

I don't spend much time looking back at what happened. I do remember it, but I don't see any purpose of wanting to look back.

Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.

I try very hard not to look back.

I learned a long time ago that no one wants to hear excuses.

We must turn the page on the dark parts of our history.

You can't be looking into the past too much about what you could have done; it is about making things right and learning from that experience and taking it into the next game.

I was a college coach, and I messed up. And I found a way to deal with the consequences and be better.