Quotes & Sayings About Repeating Same Mistakes

From the fact of general well-being came the new position of the poor. They were now in most communities a minority. The voice of the people was now the voice of relative affluence. Politicians in pursuit of votes could be expected to have a diminishing concern for the very poor. Compassion would have to serve instead - an uncertain substitute. — John Kenneth Galbraith

Our evolution depends on our memory. If we keep forgetting the mistakes of the past, only to keep repeating them, then we will never change. And if we keep recycling through the exact same kind of leaders - the kind who do not propel us forward, but only hold us back - then perhaps what we really need now is a completely different style of leadership altogether. We need heart-driven leaders, not strictly mind-driven ones. We need compassionate humanitarians, not greedy businessmen. Peacemakers, not war instigators. We need unity, not division. Angels, not devils. — Suzy Kassem

I'm gonna reveal something to you that's going to come as a shock: If you're a stupid young man, you're usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes. — William Shatner

Invoking brings the heart closer to the hereafter and keeps the world away from the heart, even though the world is around it. Invoking warns the heedless heart to abandon its pleasures and deceptions. — Ibn Ata Allah

We are suffering, all of us, because of the emptiness that surrounds us, that infiltrates between us, that penetrates through us. We are penned in by our limitations, afraid to break out and face that emptiness alone. But unless we do, we shall go on making our mistakes, repeating our blunders and manufacturing the same senseless tragedies. — Bill Hopkins

Why do men think they know how to cook outside when they haven't the smallest idea how to go about it indoors? — Terry Wogan

Pain narrows vision. The most private of sensations, it forces us to think of ourselves and little else. — Philip Yancey

Today's readers can be roughly divided into two groups, those who accept the fantasy villains of childhood, as in the James Bond stories and Arnold Schwarzenegger films, and those who insist on credibility. — Sol Stein

Always try to avoid repeating the same mistakes; the price that you have
to pay is often too high. — Eraldo Banovac

If thou thy selfe canst doe it, attend no others helpe or hand. — George Herbert

How in hell did those bombers get up there every single second of our lives! Why doesn't someone want to talk about it! We've started and won two atomic wars since 2022! Is it because we're having so much fun at home we've forgotten the world? Is it because we're so rich and the rest of the world's so poor and we just don't care if they are? I've heard rumors; the world is starving, but we're well fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much? I've heard the rumors about hate too, once in a long while, over the years. Do you know why? I don't, that's sure! Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damn insane mistakes! — Ray Bradbury

He makes himself ridiculous who is for ever repeating the same mistake. — Horace

I loved you when you wanted to leave,
and I loved you when you left. — Hayley Stumbo

One a' them rules is don't go trusting another man's path...People do it, they do what their mommies and daddies did, they make them same mistakes, they have them same joys and hurts, they just repeating. Trees don't grow exactly where their momma is; ain't no room...I weren't following no one up through life. — Beth Lewis

Only a complete asshole would keep repeating the same old mistakes and blaming it on something else. Hell, we have all had it hard. It may not seem like it, — Sister Souljah

History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time — Cressida Cowell

There is no shame in ignorance and failing; there is only shame in not being willing to learn and repeating the same errors over again. — John Kramer

All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about. — Stephen Colbert

My life is training. — Tim Howard

I think my blood is actually khaki. The khaki is a part of me. It's in my heart. — Bindi Irwin

Approval or blame will follow in the world to come. — Franz Schubert

It is federal, because it is the government of States united in a political union, in contradistinction to a government of individuals, that is, by what is usually called, a social compact. To express it more concisely, it is federal and not national because it is the government of a community of States, and not the government of a single State or Nation. — John C. Calhoun

A forest bird never wants a cage. — Henrik Ibsen