I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
Quotations
Mistake
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones.
-John Peel
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
-Alexander Pope
"Swift: Miscellanies"
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
