Confucius Quotes

Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

What, pray, does it profit a man to teach others, and to be prating always about virtue, in high-sounding words, if he fails to give heed to his own instructions?

My power for good, whatever it may, would be gone if I didn’t try to live up to the doctrines I have tried to preach.

I attempt to do my best and do what's right, but that doesn't mean I'm always right.

If I had the opportunity to give President Trump any advice, and I had to boil it down to one thing, I suppose it would be that nobody ever got better at any job by blaming everybody else whenever anything goes wrong.

I'm very hard on myself. I'm the first person that'll say, 'Yeah I messed up.' And then I'll try to go out and fix it.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

I take responsibility for my successes as well as my failures. But when I look at my professional mistakes, I'm always left with the feeling that maybe I should have done more.

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

I just try to do my best and make the best judgments I can.

How can I govern others, who can't even govern myself?

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

I'm not perfect in my walk but I want to do the right thing.

I think that sometimes you can be an example of what to do and what not to do, and I think most of the time I'm an example of what not to do.

Although, I think you look back and you try to learn from your mistakes.

You know, I'd like to sit here and blame everybody else for my trouble. I just can't do that. I can't find it in myself to do it.

Whether it's making a film or raising my children, personally I'm striving to do the right things and to learn.

I live in a universe in which blame doesn't exist. I don't believe in being at fault; I believe in taking responsibility for your actions. If I do something wrong, I take responsibility for it.