DMX Quotes

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice; had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

I feel like I've lived a life of making mistakes and learning from them and doing my best to only make each mistake once.

When you don't have someone to model yourself after, you're going to make mistakes.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do.

Life is not easy for anyone. You have to have ups and downs. You can make mistakes. You learn and try not to make them again. That's pretty much my principle.

A lot of things in life, you can be told the right way to do it, but you've kind of got to learn by your own mistakes. It's just human nature.

There are many things people don't know about me, and maybe when they read about those things, they will have an understanding of the journey I have been on, why I've made the mistakes I have, and hopefully help other people overcome their adversities.

In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?

There's no way that you can live an adequate life without making many mistakes.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

No matter what you do, no matter how stupid, dumb or damaging you judge it to be, there is a lesson to be learned from it.

Experience comes from what we have done. Wisdom comes from what we have done badly.

Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long. If you have been doing it wrong for the last ten years, I would suggest that’s long enough!

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

All I ever do is learn from my mistakes so I don't make the same ones again. Then I make new ones.

Making mistakes and learning from them is crucial to winning.

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

I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.

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

As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.

Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.

It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done.

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.