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Corrective Quotes

On fixing what went wrong, big and small.

These quotes range from constitutional corrective amendments that made a document fairer, to an administration criticized for taking no corrective action at all. See action quotes.

The Administration has made critical mistakes and errors in judgment leading up to the war in Iraq. The President refuses to acknowledge these mistakes, and thus, no corrective action has been taken to prevent these problems from happening again.

Quotes by Zoe Lofgren

Today's Constitution is a realistic document of freedom only because of several corrective amendments. Those amendments speak to a sense of decency and fairness that I and other Blacks cherish.

Quotes by Thurgood Marshall

An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

Quotes by Pankaj Mishra

I think as the world changes, we have to keep up. We have to note what is happening, and I think writing has always had a powerful corrective influence and possibility. We have to write about what's good, and we...

Quotes by Lee Smith

Able Quotes

I used to be really fat, but now I'm not. I used to have hair, but now I don't. I used to be able to see without corrective lenses, but now I can't. One of these this is exacerbated by...

Quotes by John Joseph Adams

The potential in many environmental issues is that if you undertake corrective action without appropriate understanding of the problem, then you wind up doing more harm than good.

Quotes by Hugh Ross

Perhaps the best thing about biographies is that they enable us to slip the strictures of time and provide a bracing corrective to our tendency to see everything in the dark glass of our own era, with all its blind...

Quotes by Eric Metaxas

Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.

Quotes by Edward Bach

Reading the several thousand pages of Christopher Isherwood's complete journals is an instructive corrective to the prissiness of reading fiction. Isherwood had faults that we'd say were unforgiveable in a novel (he was careful to distance himself from these in...

Quotes by Edmund White

Action Quotes

Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

Quotes by Ed Royce

I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands. I also wore corrective braces on my legs, like in 'Forrest Gump.'

Quotes by Apollo Robbins

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage; and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Quotes by Andrew Jackson

In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you...

Frequently Asked Questions

What are Corrective quotes about?
This collection spans corrective action at very different scales — constitutional amendments, government policy failures, corrective lenses, and even acting technique.
Why do people search for quotes about corrective action?
People use these quotes when discussing accountability, policy fixes, or the discipline required to correct a mistake, personal or institutional.
What does the constitutional quote say about correction?
One quote credits several corrective amendments with making a constitution a realistic document of freedom, tying legal correction to fairness and decency. See action quotes.
Is government accountability part of this topic?
Yes — one quote criticizes an administration for refusing to acknowledge mistakes made before a war, arguing that no real corrective action followed.
Does this collection cover personal correction too?
It does — one quote describes needing corrective lenses to see, and another describes shaping an acting role as a corrective exercise in restraint and control.

On a smaller scale, correction shows up as corrective lenses and even acting choices meant to correct old habits. For related themes, browse able quotes.