377 quotes found
“Intelligence is not to make no mistakes but quickly to see how to make them good.”
“Our mistakes won't irreparably damage our lives unless we let them.”
“Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.”
“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost " and say "I lost it."”
“Ah how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!”
“I've arrived at this outermost edge of my life by my own actions. Where I am is thoroughly unacceptable. Therefore I must stop doing what I have been doing.”
“Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.”
“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.”
“A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He does not say "My men were beaten " he says "I was beaten."”
“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes. It takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.”
“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 an...”
“Imagine a congress of eminent celebrities such as More Bacon Grotius Pascal Cromwell Bossuet Montesquieu Jefferson Napoleon Pitt etc. They would be an Encyclopedia of Errors.”
“The fault dear Brutus is not in our stars but in ourselves.”
“Flops are a part of life's menu and Eve never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses.”
“There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.”
“Every man's got to figure to get beat sometime.”
“Admitting error clears the score and proves you wiser than before.”
“Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?”
“Mistakes fail in their mission of helping the person who blames them on the other fellow.”
“Man errs as long as he struggles.”
