Scott DesJarlais Quotes

I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

I have made some bad decisions in my own life, and people were there for me.

I would love to tell you that it's been absolutely perfect, that I've been a man that's been super Christian. But I've had mistakes, dumb things I've regretted, so it's not a perfect life. But it's one that has helped me make better decisions.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

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.

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

The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

There's more to us than the moment we made a bad decision.

We're far more defined by our mistakes than the things that we succeed at.

They say I've made mistakes, but they've been mistakes of the heart.

Where I Was Wrong

I’ve learned to recognize my failings and seek opportunities for redemption.

I'm not going to be the same as I was when I've made so many bad mistakes.

I made some choices that weren't right in the past. It cost me in terms of my confidence and everything.

I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.

We all make mistakes. God knows I've made more than anyone else I know.

I've made mistakes, and I'm very aware of them, and I've tried to better myself from those mistakes.

You've got to go through times in your life when you're not going to make the greatest decisions. But the thing is, I always say, you grade a person on what they've become after they've made some mistakes. Because it's so easy to make mistakes when you're young.

There's a lot of 'oops' from us in life as people. I always say that God never says 'oops.' That's just kind of how I've always lived my life, but we're so imperfect that there's a lot of times that we say, 'Oops, my bad.'

In this life you make mistakes, and some people make more than others.

I've made social mistakes. We've all made our mistakes and tried things we kind of wish we didn't, but we plan around it. Things happen in situations that are unique and different, and no one is perfect.