Georges St-Pierre Quotes

Calling oneself a hero after making mistakes shouldn't earn public trust.

Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.

Remember you're not entitled to anything. You have to earn your success every day, and you will make mistakes like everyone else.

I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

When I served as prime minister last time, I failed to prioritize my agenda. I was eager to complete everything at once, and ended my administration in failure. After resigning, for six years I traveled across the nation simply to listen.

Few men in high places will admit a mistake.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me.

I realize I have made a lot of mistakes and done things wrong. I've done things I wish I could have done in another way. I didn't come in with the same kind of desperation that I may have had on the first or second record. I didn't come in thinking, 'Oh God, please. I hope this does well because I have nothing else and I worked so hard at this.'

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

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

I don’t think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.

The reality is that everybody makes mistakes. The issue isn't whether you will make them, it's what you will do about them. It's whether you will choose the path of humility and courage or the path of ego and pride.

I've taken my knocks here and there, but I believe my intentions are good. Doesn't mean everything I do is perfectly executed or I don't make mistakes. Of course I do.

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.

I made my share of mistakes. People can look at that as what not to do, and if they choose to make fun of it, that's fine. I can't control that. All I know is that I can control myself. And at that point in my life, I wasn't even able to do that.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

I've certainly never helped anybody save the day, in any capacity. If anybody is going to understand making a few mistakes, it's me.

I made the wrong mistakes

When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it. 2. Learn from it, and 3. Don't repeat it.

Okay I've been stupid in the past. Not consistently stupid, but occasionally stupid. And I've made mistakes. You bet, I've made mistakes.

Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

Being down 3-1 [in the Finals] was the worst feeling I've ever experienced in my life.