Dalai Lama Quotes

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

It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

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

It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Common sense is the guy who tells you that you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team. But he never is. He's high up in the stands with a flask on his hip. Common sense is the little man in a grey suit who never makes a mistake in addition. But it's always someone else's money he's adding up.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.

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

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 try not to have regrets and to learn from every experience.

No one's perfect. And we've all made our mistakes and you just have to live with them and try to not make them again.

If someone were to say, 'Well, what would you have done differently?' I'd say, 'Nothing'. I think you need to make mistakes.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

I've learned so much from all my mistakes. I just wish I had gotten my education.

There have been times, lately, when I dearly wished that I could change the past. Well, I can’t, but I can change the present, so that when it becomes the past it will turn out to be a past worth having.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way. But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

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.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

The last thing I want to do is to make the mistakes of the past.

We all make mistakes but one has to move on.