Wendell Berry Quotes

You're always trying to learn from the past to plot a course in the future that will be better. You're always trying to learn.

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

Think about the past to learn, but move forward.

The great thing about a reboot is, you can learn from the past if you care enough.

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.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

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

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.

We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We're meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited.

The good thing is that life is sometimes a work in progress.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes. Resolve to learn something new every day. Because every 24 hours, you have the opportunity to have the best day of your company's life.

Life is all about evolution. What looks like a mistake to others has been a milestone in my life. Even if people have betrayed me, even if my heart was broken, even if people misunderstood or judged me, I have learned from these incidents. We are human and we make mistakes, but learning from them is what makes the difference.

I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we'll eventually emerge from it.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

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 may not be where I want to be, but thank God I am not where I used to be.

It is not well to go into things long past, unless to learn something for our present guidance.