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"
Quotations
Mistake
I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.
-Jimi Hendrix
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!
-Steve Maraboli
"Life, the Truth, and Being Free"
Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.
-Ludwig Van Beethoven
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
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"
No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.
-François De La Rochefoucauld
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
-Socrates
