Quotations
Mistake
If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.
- Edward G. Bulwer Lytton
Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.
- Henry Ford
He that speaks much, is much mistaken.
- Benjamin Franklin
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
I don’t care what people say about me. I do care about my mistakes.
- Socrates
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
- Publilius Syrus
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honourable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
I suppose that’s one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
- Charlie Chaplin
Unless I accept my faults I will most certainly doubt my virtues.
- Hugh Prather
Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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