How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

People are ready to acknowledge some of their faults, but will admit to others only with reluctance.

Amazing how many people are sorry for the consequences they suffer as a result of their terrible actions yet completely unremorseful with regard to the ones they intentionally harmed by those same actions.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Some people find fault like there is a reward for it.

We have no idea any more what it means to feel guilty. The communists have the excuse that Stalin misled them, murdurers have the excuse that their mothers didn't love them. And suddenly you come out and say: there is no excuse. No one could be more innocent in his soul and conscience than Oedipus, and yet he punished himself when he saw what he had done.

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

there are two types of people in this world: those who make excuses and those who get the job done. No excuses. You are 100 percent responsible for anything that has your name on it.

People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they don't deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things

Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.