Correction Quotes

Chance corrects us of many faults that reason would not know how to correct.

To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes.

Experience, as we know, has a way of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

You correct an error by bringing truth to it.

Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed.

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow.

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?

Should things go wrong at any time, the people will set them to rights by the peaceable exercise of their elective rights.

A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

When correcting a child, the goal is to apply light, not heat.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower.

The best way to correct a mistake is to make it right.

Don't succumb to excuses. Go back to the job of making the corrections and forming the habits that will make your goal possible.

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.