Alas, I know if I ever became truly humble, I would be proud of it.
He that rises late must trot all day.
Nothing preaches better than the act.
Men take more pains to mask than mend.
There seems to be three ways for a nation to acquire wealth: the first is by war...this is robbery; the second by commerce, which is generally cheating; the third by agriculture, the only honest way.
Everybody's human-everybody makes mistakes. If you laugh it off and keep going and try to give it your best the next time around, people respect that.