Quotes About Correction
The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.
~ Henry David Thoreau
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when a subject corrects his prelate, he ought to do so in a becoming manner, not with impudence and harshness but with gentleness and respect. . . .
~ Peter Kreeft
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Cada uno de nosotros viene a este mundo para corregir algo. Puede ser el equipaje que hemos traído con nosotros de vidas anteriores, o situaciones en las que hemos generado un cortocircuito en algún punto de nuestra vida actual.
~ Yehuda Berg
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She was motivated by something else: impatience. To Aimee poverty was one of the world's sloppy errors, one among many, which might be easily corrected if only people would bring to the problem the focus she brought to everything.
~ Zadie Smith
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THERE IS A general cry of paradox when scholars, struck by some historical error, attempt to correct it; but, for whoever studies modern history to its depths, it is plain that historians are privileged liars, who lend their pen to popular beliefs precisely as the newspapers of the day, or most of them, express the opinions of their readers.
~ Honore de Balzac
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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
~ Hosea Ballou
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Do not correct a fool, or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you ! Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com
~ Unknown
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Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
~ Hugh Blair
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Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs itself, correcting through its practice. And the purpose of action is to enable philosophy to continue, for if men are reduced to the material alone, they become no more than beasts.
~ Iain Pears
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If you are mean, practise generosity as a corrective, not as a virtue.
~ Idries Shah
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Si eres mezquino, practica la generosidad como un correctivo, no como una virtud.
~ Idries Shah
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Todo buen cristiano ha de ser más pronto a salvar la proposición del prójimo que a condenarla; y, si no la puede salvar, inquira cómo la entiende; y, si mal la entiende, corríjale con amor; y, si no basta, busque todos los medios convenientes para que, bien entendiéndola, se salve.
~ Ignatius of Loyola
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When things go badly, it is your fault, not theirs. You are responsible. Analyze how it happened, make the necessary fixes, and move on. No mass punishment or floggings. Fire people if you need to, train harder, insist on a higher level of performance, give halftime rants if that shakes a group up. But never forget that failure is your responsibility.
~ Colin Powell
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Never Walk Past a Mistake This is one of the first lessons drilled into young military leaders. To put it another way: make on-the-spot corrections.
~ Colin Powell
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To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare remain incorrect?
~ Confucius
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If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.
~ Confucius
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Basically you start this process from the bottom up. In other words, you check your balances in sub-ledgers or journals to be sure they are correct.
~ Unknown
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Beating is the worst, and therefore the last means to be us'd in the correction of children, and that only in the cases of extremity, after all gently ways have been try'd, and proved unsuccessful; which, if well observ'd, there will very seldom be any need of blows.
~ Locke John
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Stubbornness and an obstinate disobedience must be mastered with blows.
~ Unknown
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Manners, boy. I'll beat them into you if I have to.
~ Lori Foster
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You're right. I forgot that barns were heated. Hannah didn't bother to correct her sister. Strictly speaking, Andrea was right, barns were heated. They were kept warm by herding in all the cattle, keeping them together in a closed space and utilizing their body heat. When it came to barns in the winter BTUs stood for Bunched Together Until Summer.
~ Joanne Fluke
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It's time to make mistakes. It's time to then learn from them. It's time to take the wrong decisions and then keep correcting them till you're finally right. All of this so that next time when people ask you what you really want to do in life; you won't have to think, you'll just know it! Happy Graduation. May you have a successful life!
~ Unknown
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Being self-aware is not the absence of mistakes, but the ability to learn and correct them.
~ Unknown
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Most people when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
~ Josh Billings
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