Eric Metaxas Quotes

It doesn't matter who you have hurt, if you've learned not to hurt again. It doesn't matter what mistakes you've made as long as you don't make them again. As long as you learn, as long as you're willing to take your life in your hands, and kiss it and go from there. Then there is growth. There there is life!

Even when you've made mistakes in life, you can still contribute and pick up the stuff and move on.

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.

I feel like I have been able to rewrite my story to some extent. But I feel like there is a lot of work to be done.

Mistakes happen, and then you try to overcome those. I like that process.

You correct the mistakes, and you move on.

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

I am a firm believer that you can make a mistake but that shouldn't define you. Everybody deserves a second chance.

I feel like I came through this year stronger and wiser, and I can go into 2015 in a much better place.

Success is a great deodorant. It takes away all your past smells.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a comforting thought

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

A second chance doesn't mean anything if you haven't learned from your first mistake.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

No matter how much you screw up your own life by the wrong decisions that you make, it's never too late to do the right thing and change your ways and you can teach old dogs new tricks.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

Do not consider painful what is good for you.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

I do think it's possible to change for the better.

I'll never be a non-stumbler. I'll be a forgiven stumbler, but never a non-stumbler.

I try to be honest and I keep moving.

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

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.