If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
-Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
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"
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
-Hugh Prather
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw
That's not serious; it's just human.
-Jerry Kopke
Tomorrow, every fault is to be amended; but that tomorrow never comes.
-Benjamin Franklin
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.
-Zig Ziglar
