James I. Robertson Jr. Quotes

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

It is not well to go into things long past, unless to learn something for our present guidance.

History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

You learn from your mistakes, and I think it's a good thing as long as you learn something.

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.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

If one does not forget one's previous experience, one can learn for the future from the past.

I made mistakes off the track and have learned from them.

Everyone must learn from the past.

I know that in my past I was young and irresponsible - but that's what growing up is. You learn from your mistakes.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

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

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

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

Experience is a great teacher.

You try to avoid the mistakes you made in the past.

Nearly everyone I met, worked with, or read about was my teacher, one way or another.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

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

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.