Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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"
There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth...not going all the way, and not starting.
If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.
-F. Wikzek
Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life.
-Sophia Loren
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
-John Powell
Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
-Andrew V. Mason
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"
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