“If I had my life to do over again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”
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John C. Maxwell145
American author, speaker and pastor 1947Related quotes
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Context: I think if I had my life to live over again, I'd do things a little different. I was aggressive, perhaps too aggressive. Maybe I went too far. I always had to be right in any argument I was in, I always had to be first in everything. I do indeed think I would have done some things different. And if I had I believe I would have had more friends.
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Source: Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000
