Karl Rove Quotes

An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth.

I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: "An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them.

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.

Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.

Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.

When there's a pattern of mistakes, something has got to change.

When you make a mistake, don't make a second one -- keeping it to yourself. Own up. The time to sort out rotten eggs is at the nest. The deeper you hide them in the case the longer they stay in circulation, and the worse impression they make when they finally come to the breakfast table.

When someone else makes a mistake, it is their responsibility to correct it, but it is your responsibility to handle how you feel about it.

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

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.

Make mistakes; it's what you do about them that counts.

It is only an error of judgment to make a mistake, but it argues an infirmity of character to adhere to it when discovered.

Forgiving is tough. Excusing is easy. What a mistake it is to confuse forgiving with being mushy, soft, gutless, and oh, so understanding. Before we forgive, we stiffen our spine and we hold a person accountable. And only then, in tough-minded judgment, can we do the outrageously impossible thing: we can forgive.

Where mistakes have been made, the responsibility rests with me.

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

Sometimes everyone does the right thing and there's still a mess left to clean up. Someone has to take responsibility for it.

People who blame others for their failures never overcome them. They simply move from problem to problem. To reach your potential, you must continually improve yourself, and you can't do that if you don't take responsibility for your actions and learn from your mistakes.

I know it's my fault I should've gave more.

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.

Doctors bury their mistakes, but mine are still on scholarship.