You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?
I would be quite content if I myself could be rated fifty-fifty in merits and demerits. But one thing I can say for myself: I have had a clear conscience all my life. Please mark my words: I have made quite a few mistakes, and I have my own share of responsibility for some of the mistakes made by Comrade Mao Zedong. But it can be said that I made my mistake with good intentions. There is nobody who doesn't make mistakes.
Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.
I know I'm probably much too late to try and apologize for my mistakes.
When I'm wrong I'm like the Emperor on the Death Star thinking he'll turn Luke. Yet, when I'm right I'm a Jedi like my father before me.
Let us fall before the majesty of our great God, acknowledging our faults, and praying that he will make us ever more conscious of them.
I am a fool. That is well known.
Confession of our faults is the next thing to innocence.
I call myself out on my mistakes, but in telling the truth, sometimes it stings a little.
So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.
Well, I'm stubborn and wrong, but at least I know it.
I can't say I'm never going to mess up, but if I do, I'll definitely be very sorry.
One of the most common ways of not acknowledging our faults is to blame others.
O, we all acknowledge our faults, now; 'tis the mode of the day: but the acknowledgment passes for current payment; and therefore we never amend them.
I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.
When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.
How innocent we are of our mistakes and how we responsible we are for them.
There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves.
Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.
Every man has his faults; I have and so have you - you will allow me to say so!
Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain.
