A human being is absolutely independent; therefore whatever happens to him
is completely his own responsibility. The one who holds others responsible,
repeatedly commits the same mistakes again and again.
-Deep Trivedi
Quotations
Mistake
The greatest mistake we can make is to stay on the ground after falling.
-Victor Manuel Rivera
"In Search of True Freedom"
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 error gracefully acknowledged is a victory won.
-Caroline L. Gascoigne
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
-Niels Bohr
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
-Edward J. Phelps
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
-George Bernard Shaw
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
-Henry Ford
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
