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"
Quotations
Mistake
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you've made, if they don't realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
-Elbert Hubbard
"The Note Book"
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Scholars, learning from their mistakes of the past, plan their present and future accordingly and enjoy success, peace and prosperity.
-Vedas "Atharva Veda"
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
-Charlie Chaplin
