Scott McClellan Quotes

I learned years ago that the more honest you are about anything you're doing in life, you can grow and learn from your mistakes.

I think that's probably one of my favorite things - learning and creating incredible relationships and making mistakes and being responsible for that.

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

If you don't know where you make your mistakes, that's your worst mistake: not knowing where your mistakes are at.

I have made mistakes and learnt from them.

I've made mistakes, and I'm very aware of them, and I've tried to better myself from those mistakes.

I know I've made mistakes, and sometimes I've talked about things too openly or directly. That wasn't good, and I've learned from that.

I think we should learn from our mistakes.

It's important to learn from your mistakes and then to refine.

Maybe sometimes I have been wrong with some movies. Anyway, I try to do my best.

I view the experiences that I have had - both tough ones and the pleasant ones - as gifts. They've been full of lessons. And I've learned to be open to those lessons.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

All I know is that I've made some big screw-ups, and I've done some things that have done all right. I just keep trying to learn from the mistakes I've made.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Mistakes show us what we need to learn.

I have looked back on situations and thought that I could have handled a few differently and probably better.

And maybe I'm a little smarter now than I was before for all the stupid things I've done.

I realized that I had to be honest about where I was, where I was coming from, and what I was trying to do.

I understand that I'm not perfect. I made mistakes and I had a hand in everything that's happened to me, good and bad.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.

The simple reality of life is that everyone is wrong on a regular basis. By confronting these inevitable errors, you allow yourself to make corrections before it is too late.

I've been doing a lot of learning from mistakes, first and foremost, and building off that.