Kofi Annan Quotes

I thought if I looked back and evaluated my life, it would help me in the future.

I think you're always trying to figure yourself out and mistakes that you've made.

I do always look back and feel faintly embarrassed by anything I've done in the past. I think that's not a terrible thing, because if you don't do that, how are you growing and moving forward?

Sometimes you have to experience things for yourself to learn the lessons that you need to learn.

I learned from my past.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

I was shaped by my mistakes.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

I always say the minute I stop making mistakes is the minute I stop learning and I've definitely learned a lot.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

There's always something in the game you wish you would have done different. That's why players improve, because they learn from what they did before. They might have been guessing before, but now they know.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

I have been wrong enough times to know that it is always a possibility.

Learning from mistakes means having to admit them first.

One cannot advance without mistakes... It is necessary to make mistakes. The party cannot be educated without learning from mistakes. This has great significance.

Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.

We make mistakes, but we learn from them.

I'm hard on myself, like, 'Oh, why did you say that?' But it helps me grow.

My advice to myself would be I should probably listen to advice.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

It is our mistakes that make us interesting, right?

I have mistakes and I have flaws, but I'm going to grow and get better from it.

I always see what I did wrong, what I could do better.