Barack Obama Quotes

I left acting for 15 years, and I think it's really nice to have another life. I took too much for granted when I was younger. I didn't really want to be an actor. I didn't really love it. And so I made a lot of mistakes. Oddly, I care much more about it now. I feel like a complete novice.

Emotions change. Truth doesn't. What will you build your life upon?

Doubt is a very important trait. Out of doubt comes thinking, decisions, choices. We learn stuff. We learn to make mistakes. Or not to.

Of course I shall go astray often...for who does not make mistakes? But I cannot go far wrong for I have seen the truth.

Perhaps the most important thing I could say is to never be thrown by failure and mistakes. Each and everything that happens, even if it was not what you hoped would happen, is a valuable, life-learning tool. And you will only achieve success if you know how to learn from your failures and mistakes. It’s vital.

The orator is thereby an orator that keeps his feet ever on a fact.

If a man didn't make mistakes he'd own the world in a month.But if he didn't profit by his mistakes he wouldn't own a blessed thing.

We all make mistakes, but the people who thrive from their mistakes are the successful ones.

Recognize that there will be failures, and acknowledge that there will be obstacles. But you will learn from your mistakes and the mistakes of others, for there is very little learning in success.

You never fail if you know in your heart that you did the best of which you are capable. I did my best. That is all I could do. Are you going to make mistakes? Of course. But it is not failure if you make the full effort.

A string of successes can kill you if they make you think, 'Hey, I'm smart; I can't make any mistakes'.

One of the most valuable lessons I learned...is that we all have to learn from our mistakes, and we learn from those mistakes a lot more than we learn from the things we succeeded in doing.

How many people are completely successful in every department of life? Not one. The most successful people are the ones who learn from their mistakes and turn their failures into opportunities.

If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that... Because it was not their fault.

It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.

Error, when she retraces her steps, has farther to go before she can arrive at truth than ignorance.

No one likes to fail. But we mortals do not become champions without effort and discipline or without making mistakes.

Error is worse than ignorance.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

I might look successful but I've made many mistakes. People take their failures too seriously. You have to be positive and believe you will find success next time.

I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them.

And sometimes I think there isn’t anything to us but our mistakes.

I've been taught not to have any regrets. If we were to add up all of the hours spent regretting mistakes and use that time to develop new ideas, who knows how many brilliant new businesses would be created.

Everyone thinks you make mistakes when you're young. But I don't think we make any fewer when we're grown up

I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret.