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Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
Margaret Halsey
Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
But have you ever noticed one encouraging thing about me, Marilla? I never make the same mistake twice. Oh don't you see, Marilla? There must be a limit to the mistakes one person can make, and when I get to the end of them, then I'll be through with them. That's a very comforting thought.
Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne of Gr
Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
Marcus Valerius Martial
It was one thing to make a mistake; it was another thing to keep making it. I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed. Depend on someone, and you might as well admit you're going to be crushed, because when you really needed them, they wouldn't be there. Either that, or you'd confide in them and you added to their problems. All you ever really had was yourself, and that sort of sucked if you were less than reliable.
Jodi Picoult
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you're overdoing it.
Josh Jenkins
People who bite the hand that feeds them usually lick the boot that kicks them.
Eric Hoffer
Never mistake motion for action.
Ernest Hemingway
But I do nothing upon myself, and yet I am my own executioner.
John Donne
Since nothing we intend is ever faultless, and nothing we attempt ever without error, and nothing we achieve without some measure of finitude and fallibility we call humanness, we are saved by forgiveness.
David Augsburger
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce, Ulysses
More people would learn from their mistakes if they weren't so busy denying them.
Harold J. Smith
If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Only the great can afford to have great defects.
We forget our faults easily when they are known to ourselves alone.
A man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.
Florence King
The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis de Sade
