We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.
I like historical pieces. History was my favorite subject in school, it was the only subject I excelled in. I love the idea of history and the idea that we may have the opportunity to learn from our past mistakes.
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
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.
There is always tension between the possibilities we aspire to and our wounded memories and past mistakes.
We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices.
Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
I am convinced that our movement will be more demoralized and weakened by blind and uncritical admiration than by frank admission of past mistakes.
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.
Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.