377 quotes found
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.”
“Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.”
“Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!”
“I believe we are solely responsible for our choices and we have to accept the consequences of every deed word and thought throughout our lifetime.”
“Whenever at an accusation blind rage burns up within us the reason is that some arrow has pierced the joints of our harness. Behind our shining armour of righteous indignation lurks a convicted and...”
“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.”
“Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.”
“I have made mistakes but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.”
“A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says that someone pushed him.”
“Do not be afraid of mistakes providing you do not make the same one twice.”
“Fool me once shame on you fool me twice shame on me.”
“I try to extract something positive from [every] situation even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.”
“If you would not have affliction visit you twice listen at once to what it teaches.”
“You can beat the Bear once but never the same way twice.”
“Any man can make mistakes but only an idiot persists in his error.”
“The road to wisdom? Well it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again. But less and less and less.”
“I made a mistake today I made a mistake yesterday. I think it's ... very important to ignore the negative.”
“A peacefulness follows any decision even the wrong one.”
“If you don't accept failure as a possibility you don't set high goals you don't branch out you don't try - you don't take the risk.”
“When we can begin to take our failures non-seriously it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.”
