Paul Tournier Quotes

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.

I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn.

I think our life is a journey, and we make mistakes, and it's how we learn from those mistakes and rebound from those mistakes that sets us on the path that we're meant to be on.

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

We have all made mistakes in this life. How we learn from our mistakes is the measure of who we are.

The best lessons a man ever learns are from his mistakes. It is not for want of schoolmasters that we are still ignorant.

I think you learn. You learn from your mistakes. You learn from things you do and try to stay away from the negatives in your life. I think I've grown.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

No one's walking around here perfect. Everyone's gonna make mistakes. That's part of how you learn.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.

We all learn here by the honorable path of horrible mistakes.

I believe that you go through your past and you learn what you learn for whatever reason. I'm just glad I'm not making fifteen-year-old mistakes at twenty-six - I got that out of the way.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

Mistakes wreck your life. But they make what you have. It's kind of all one. You know what Hester told me when we were working the sheep one time? She said it's no good to complain about your flock, because it's the put-together of all your past choices.

I learn from my mistakes. It’s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there’s no gain.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile.

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

It takes a man a long time to learn all the lessons of all his mistakes.

Besides, life isn't meant to be safe. It's only in our mistakes, our errors, and our faults that we grow and truly live.

I'll never know - I'll never profess to know - anything anywhere near it all. It'sall a journey - life, work, and relationships. Mistakes and learning, and learning not to make your mistakes again.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.