“People make mistakes. I will make mistakes in the future, too… I think we have learnt a lot from this and that it has also been part of the training in our preparation for kinghood.”
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Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands 3
King of the Netherlands 1967Related quotes
“we’re allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us”
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
As quoted in Democracy Now! interview by Amy Goodman (30 January 2006)
Context: I don’t think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line. Some make mistakes that are greater than others. But I do believe that we should have the courage and the ability to look at something that we did, even if in the first instance we believed it, when in the wake of the aftermath and the truth, you find out that that was not the case, to then say, 'Let me go back and examine what led me to this conclusion. What gods was I serving? What masters was I serving? What was it all about?' and then try to be more instructive to people who will listen to you.
“It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any.”
1900s, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses (1900), National Duties
Source: The Winner Stands Alone
Source: Deadeye Dick (1982), p. 6
Said to Enver Hoxha, on his visit to China in 1956, as quoted in Hoxha's (1986) The Artful Albanian, (Chatto & Windus, London), ISBN 0701129700
