John Wooden Quotes

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

Brooding over blunders is the biggest blunder.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life.

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.

Don't worry about things, that you can do better next time. Don't worry about stuff you can't control.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

I don't really believe in regrets.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I don't really regret anything in my life.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

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

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.

I think that at some point in your life you realize you don't have to worry if you do everything you're supposed to do right. Or if not right, if you do it the best you can... what can worry do for you? You are already doing the best you can.

I don't have any regrets.

Insecurity is a waste of time.

I used to let a lot of unimportant things bother me. I don't anymore. Right now, things are going great in my life. It used to be when that happened, I would be waiting for something to go wrong. Now I don't expect that - if something negative does happen, I'll deal with it, learn from it and realize it is the way it is supposed to be.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else's attitude was time I could put to better use.