Pete Seeger Quotes

The mistake we have made in our lives is that over and over again we've run into the needful moment and then failed to learn its higher lesson. We don't like needful moments and therefore we resist them.

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

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Nobody will use other people's experience, nor have any of his own till it is too late to use it.

You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly.

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

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

I learned from my past.

I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better, I haven't lived in vain.

Judgment comes from experience and great judgment comes from bad experience.

There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go.

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.

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

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

We shall not grow wiser before we learn that much that we have done was very foolish.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

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

Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.

Experience is a great teacher.

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