Shinzo Abe Quotes

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many 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.

I've made a lot of career mistakes. A lot. Actually, a lot of personal ones, too.

Sure, I'm ashamed of a lot of the things I did, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the person I am today if I hadn't gone through those experiences.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.

My life is full of way more mistakes than successes.

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've fallen on my face. I've made mistakes. I've got plenty of records where I listen back, and I think, 'I wouldn't've done that.'

Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

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

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.

So much about living life, to me, is about humility and gratitude. And I've tried very hard to have those qualities and be that person and I'm just so disappointed in myself that I allowed it to slip.

Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

I've made more mistakes than anyone I know. Sometimes I learned something, and sometimes I just find myself doing it again. It makes me mad when I wasn't smart enough to learn the first time. You just think it's going to be different the next time, and it's not, as it turns out.

Persistence and determination are incredibly important. But sometimes you need to analyze the situation and understand when you're wrong. You need to be able to cop to being wrong, learn to change, and continue to grow as a human being.

Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.