"Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them."

-- John J. McCloy

#Mistake Quotes #Humility Quotes #Self Quotes

“Don't work. Avoid telling the truth. Be hated. Love someone. You're going to have a busy life. Thank goodness there's no life expectancy.”
“Creativity starts with humanity when were being human we feel - joys, sadness, when we're sick, when we're nervous”
“Denys (Finch-Hatton) has been written about before and he will be written about again. If someone has not already said it, someone will say that he was a great man who never achieved greatness, and this will not only be trite, but wrong; he was a great man who never achieved arrogance.”
“We do not have an ecological crisis. The ecosphere has a human crisis. Our 'story' about our place in the scheme of things has somehow gone awry in the industrial age...”
“Suddenly, and for the first time, he was at the center of his own life, living it and loving it.”

Source : Mary Balogh (2010). “A Secret Affair”, p.326, Delacorte Press
“I think a lot of young aspiring writers get misdirected; they think 'I ought to write this, even though I enjoy reading that'. What you have to do is write what you enjoy reading.”
“Everybody thinks they know what art should be. But very few of them have the sense that is necessary to experience painting, that is the sense of sight, that sees colors and forms as living reality in the picture.”
“In a time of rapid change, standing still is the most dangerous course of action.”

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