I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
Quotations
Mistake
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"
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
-Publilius Syrus
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"
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
