John Eldredge Quotes

I've had 60 years of ups and downs, and all of the downs that I've had, I'm happy that I've had them because it's taught me to appreciate all the ups.

You can't a put a value on experience and going through things.

When I had older guys around me, I kind of leaned on them for advice and went through tough times.

Everyone goes through adversity in life, but what matters is how you learn from it.

My mentors in life are much older than me and have been through life. They can actually give me some sound advice on what I'm going through.

Everyone has challenges and lessons to learn - we wouldn't be who we are without them.

There's natural mentoring that goes on in my life every day.

As I have encountered difficult moments in my own life, I have been privileged to learn from the great men I have come to know as a writer.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing.

At the end of the day, you got to learn from people that been through what you been through; they help you learn from your mistakes.

If it were not for the bad things that've happened to me, I wouldn't be the person I am today.

Every experience makes you a man.

I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person.

I'm hoping that a lifetime of compromise and disappointment will read as extra depth and layers in my work.

I've received many good pieces of advice throughout my life.

It's been true in my life that when I've needed a mentor, the right person shows up.

It's good to have some older friends: they have a lot more experience than us young ones.

Life ain't about just 'Chillin' It.' I've learned that.

My purpose is to share in any way what I learned, like, 'Girl, I went through this, so now you don't have to go through the same thing.'

Every experience, good or bad, you have to learn from.

I had some really incredible people who mentored me and gave me things I never got from my parents.

I went through a lot, but as I went through it, I learned from the situations.

You have to go through the lows to go through the highs as well. It's something that's made me into a man.

You've got to go through times in your life when you're not going to make the greatest decisions. But the thing is, I always say, you grade a person on what they've become after they've made some mistakes. Because it's so easy to make mistakes when you're young.