"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief."
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Source: Confucius (1907). “The Sayings of Confucius”
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