Quote by David Petraeus

There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.

There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say

Summary

This quote expresses the speaker's remorse and acknowledgment of their inability to change the past. They accept responsibility for their actions and recognize the disappointment they caused others. The quote suggests a desire to learn from their mistakes, approaching the future with humility and determination. They express gratitude towards those who offered support during a challenging period of their life. Overall, it emphasizes the importance of reflecting, apologizing, and growing from past missteps while appreciating the people who stood by them.

By David Petraeus

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him, I may think aloud.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mi

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?

L.M. Montgomery

Mistakes Inspirational Beginnings Mistake New Day Tomorrow Fresh Start Start Over

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

My dad let me figure out what I wanted to do on my own.

People respect you more if you just play and blow something

People respect you more if you just play and blow something out than if you take the easier road. That's how we think. You get more respect and people play harder for you. Just play till you blow it. Just play till it goes.

I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my b

I haven't left the house without a packet of Kleenex in my back pocket for as long as I can remember. Whenever I start thinking I'm incredibly cool, the packet of Kleenex in my back pocket brings me right back down to earth.

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the wor

Truth cannot be defined or tested by agreement with 'the world'; for not only do truths differ for different worlds but the nature of agreement between a world apart from it is notoriously nebulous.

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with

Like all of us sinners, General Betrishchev was endowed with many virtues and many defects. Both the one and the other were scattered through him in a sort of picturesque disorder. Self-sacrifice, magnanimity in decisive moments, courage, intelligence--and with all that, a generous mixture of self-love, ambition, vanity, petty personal ticklishness, and a good many of those things which a man simply cannot do without.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forg

Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been charac

Our attitude toward our own culture has recently been characterized by two qualities, braggadocio and petulance. Braggadocio -- empty boasting of American power, American virtue, American know-how -- has dominated our foreign relations now for some decades. Here at home -- within the family, so to speak -- our attitude to our culture expresses a superficially different spirit, the spirit of petulance. Never before, perhaps, has a culture been so fragmented into groups, each full of its own virtue, each annoyed and irritated at the others.

Daniel J. Boorstin

Ability is sexless.

Ability is sexless.

Christabel Pankhurst

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or

The most prolific period of pessimism comes at twenty-one or thereabouts, when the first attempt is made to translate dreams into reality.