Robert H. Jackson Quotes

I believe acknowledging our own mistakes is half the problem solved.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

I learned in an extremely hard way that the accountability falls with me.

It is better to destroy one's own errors than those of others.

Where I Was Wrong

It is important to change, acknowledge, and accept our mistakes. It's important that we - this goes even for me - introspect and see the wrongs we have done. It's time we all grew up.

To grow you must understand and admit your mistakes, it is an approach that works for me, it is not necessarily the same for everyone.

To others, being wrong is a source of shame; to me, recognizing my mistakes is a source of pride.

There is a certain degree of satisfaction in having the courage to admit one's errors.

One's belief that one is sincere is not so dangerous as one's conviction that one is right. We all feel we are right; but we felt the same way twenty years ago and today we know we weren't always right.

Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created this mess you got yourself into in the first place.

REFLECTION,n: An Action of the mind whereby we obtain a clearer view of our relation to the things of yesterday and are able to avoid the perils that we shall not again encounter

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

Humility is measured by how quickly you can admit that you are wrong.

Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself.

The more you understand yourself, the more you will understand the world.

He that measures not himselfe, is measured.

A fearful man who knows he is fearful is far more trustable than a fearful man who isn’t aware of his fear.

We every day and every hour say things of another that we might more properly say of ourselves, could we but apply our observations to our own concerns.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

When we were children, there was a silent part of us watching the child. When we were adolescents, there was that same witness watching the adolescent. Middle age, and so on. Every one, now and again, has discovered the self, the one who is watching.

It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.

I do not have a philosophy about retrospectives. Of course, I cannot change what I have done. What I am doing today, this I can change, in view of whatever I have done before. My retrospectives are like a series of ghosts.