Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations
Mistake
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
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"
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
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"
How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.
-Benjamin Franklin
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
-Benjamin Franklin
Don’t find a fault. Find a remedy.
-Henry Ford
