Conlang: Tomas Jefferson quote

It is more honorable to repair a wrong than to persist in it. -- Thomas Jefferson.

"Teka-a-ma,
eera na me,
eeyana ma."

[teka a: ma: i:ra: na me, i:yana: ma:]

Literal translation: "Honour/integrity of the self is made by growth/change in the self, not by maintaining the self as it is."

Quote translation for someone... whose name has dropped out of my sleep deprived brain. JJ I think..?

Braaaaains....