Top 66 Corrects Quotes
#1. Whatever happens - ultimately, life corrects itself.
Jaggi Vasudev
#2. If someone corrects you, and you feel offended, then you have an ego problem.
Nouman Ali Khan
#3. Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.
Ford Madox Ford
#5. Many owe their greatness to their enemies. Flattery is fiercer than hatred, for hatred corrects the faults flattery had disguised.
Baltasar Gracian
#6. It is said that one should not hesitate to correct himself when he has made a mistake. If he corrects himself without the least bit of delay, his mistakes will disappear.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo
#7. Our God is a God who cares, heals, guides, directs, challenges, confronts, corrects. To discern means first of all to listen to God, to pay attention to God's active presence, and to obey God's prompting, direction, leadings, and guidance.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#8. The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman is that of his customers. It is the fear of losing their employment which restrains his frauds and corrects his negligence.
Adam Smith
#9. I am perfect. I need to remind myself of that more often."
I snort. "Right. Because you're not conceited enough."
"I'm confident," he corrects.
Elle Kennedy
#11. I know the place. It is true. Everything we do Corrects the space Between death and me And you.
Harold Pinter
#12. We need to get back to the Alliance - " She corrects herself. That's old thinking. "The New Republic.
Chuck Wendig
#13. Us," Peter corrects. "I did it for us." He links our fingers together. "It's you and me, kid.
Jenny Han
#14. Ha-ha. The dumb jock who can't talk the Queen's English. I swear to God, the next person who corrects my grammar gets punched in the face.
Rick Yancey
#15. Revolution cleanses men, improving them as the experimental farmer corrects the defects of his plants.
Che Guevara
#16. The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his failings.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#17. He that never changes his opinion never corrects mistakes and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
#19. Mary had said: "Your father and I have been looking for you anxiously." Jesus corrects her: I am with my father. My father is not Joseph, but another - God himself. It is to him that I belong, and here I am with him. Could Jesus' divine sonship be presented any more clearly?
Pope Benedict XVI
#20. Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
Francis Atterbury
#22. Let Pascal say that man is a thinking reed. He is wrong; man is a thinking erratum. Each period in life is a new edition that corrects the preceding one and that in turn will be corrected by the next, until publication of the definitive edition, which the publisher donates to the worms.
Machado De Assis
#23. A person with 'oppositional conversational style' is a person who, in conversation, disagrees with and corrects whatever you say. He or she may do this in a friendly way, or a belligerent way, but this person frames remarks in opposition to whatever you venture.
Gretchen Rubin
#24. Leaders need to correct for cognitive biases the way a sharpshooter corrects for wind velocity or a yachtsman corrects for the tide.
Paul Gibbons
#25. The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction.
Mark Twain
#26. I never said I do not remember, my grandmother corrects. I said I prefer to forget.
Jodi Picoult
#27. Time heals everything. Time corrects everything. Time is the solution to every problem, I believe. A lot of things can happen with time. All that has to be there is the intention.
Mehcad Brooks
#28. [H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.
John Locke
#29. From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
#30. Do not reward performance.
Rather, respond to Spirit
expressing the Way. You are a
mirror with which your child
sees - and corrects - himself.
Vimala McClure
#31. To admonish is better than to reproach for admonition is mild and friendly, but reproach is harsh and insulting; and admonition corrects those who are doing wrong, but reproach only convicts them.
Epictetus
#32. Failure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame. Therefore the Master fulfills her own obligations and corrects her own mistakes. She does what she needs to do and demands nothing of others.
Laozi
#33. Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity.
Phyllis Theroux
#34. It is better to advise than upbraid, for the one corrects the erring; the other only convicts them.
Epictetus
#35. The improvement of the mind improves the heart and corrects the understanding.
Agathon
#36. When fortune has been abolished, when every profession is open to everyone, an ambitious man may think it is easy to launch himself on a great career and feel that he has been called to no common destiny. But this is a delusion which experience quickly corrects.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#37. Contrology develops the body uniformly, corrects wrong postures, restores physical vitality, invigorates the mind, and elevates the spirit.
Joseph Pilates
#38. Who cares? I'm an old woman. No one corrects an old woman. We can get away with anything.
Lynn Cahoon
#39. The archer who misses his mark does not blame the target. He stops, corrects himself and shoots again.
Confucius
#40. Religious traditions can be reinterpreted in a manner that assists healing, corrects distortions, and expands vision.
Larry Graham
#41. The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies.
Hosea Ballou
#43. Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.
Benjamin Banneker
#44. 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
#45. My boyfriend's an idiot," I say as soon as he lurches away.
"A cute idiot," Ally corrects me.
"That's like saying 'a cute mutant.' Doesn't exist.
Lauren Oliver
#46. I prefer the emotion that corrects the rule.
Juan Gris
#47. We need his kingdom to "come." Calvin believed there were two ways God's kingdom comes - through the Spirit, who "corrects our desires," and through the Word of God, which "shapes our thoughts.
Timothy Keller
#48. What I do is create a lens through my work that corrects my readers' cognitive dissonance and says: you will see all of it - not what you want or what makes you comfortable, but all of it. And you will not erase what displeases you.
Chris Abani
#49. He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television."
"Are you and Beetee going?" I ask.
"As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.
Suzanne Collins
#50. When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, 'he loves learning.'
Confucius
#51. Discipline is training that corrects and perfects our mental faculties or molds our moral character. Discipline is control gained by enforced obedience. It is the deliberate cultivation of inner order.
Charles R. Swindoll
#52. Custom is the great leveller. It corrects the inequality of fortune by lessening equally the pleasures of the prince and the pains of the peasant.
Henry Home, Lord Kames
#53. He who corrects an arrogant man earns insult; and he who reproves a wicked man incurs opprobrium.
Anonymous
#54. Whoever corrects a mocker invites insult.
C.D. Baker
#55. Time is rhythm: the insect rhythm of a warm humid night, brain ripple, breathing, the drum in my temple - these are our faithful timekeepers; and reason corrects the feverish beat.
Vladimir Nabokov
#56. Gentleness corrects whatever is offensive in our manner.
Hugh Blair
#57. If you are insulted, if you are accused, if they gossip about you, don't say anything bad. Don't be the one who sees the shame, be the one who corrects it.
Shams Tabrizi
#58. I don't like to say I'm happy. The Universe always finds out and corrects its mistake.
David Willis
#59. On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.
Charles Baudelaire
#60. Do you realize anyone could have won?"
"Anyone without a criminal record," she corrects. "And yes.
Ella James
#61. A good leader sees everything, overlooks a great deal, and corrects a little.
Pope John Paul II
#62. With whom," Logan corrects from his booth making me want to give him a big grammar Nazi high five.
Sherry D. Ficklin
#63. A great nation does not hide its history. It faces its flaws and corrects them.
George W. Bush
#64. Pain is such a useful thing. It corrects us when we're wrong. It shapes our character. It teaches us that we're alive.
C.J. Redwine
#65. Counsel and conversation is a good second education, that improves all the virtue and corrects all the vice of the former, and of nature itself.
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl Of Clarendon
#66. Whatever the dangers in sex, gay men's innate drive to make love to other men corrects, redeems, and intervenes on a world gone mad with man-to-man violence.
Douglas Sadownick
