Mike Pompeo Quotes

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

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.

I try not to make the same mistakes today that I made yesterday.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

I missed a lot of decisions. At the time of making such a decision, there was no doubt in my mind as to its correctness. However, a second or two later I felt that I erred and wished I could change my original ruling.

I don't want to make the wrong mistake.

I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

I try very hard not to look back.

All of us from time to time look back and think we could've handled things differently or better.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

That ability to see the right choice, but not until several hours have passed since making the wrong one? That's what makes a person a dumbass, folks.

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'

I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

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

No I'm not a great believer in getting back over things and saying if only, or if, or buts because I don't think we actually get anywhere on that.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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.

Every decision you make is a mistake.