The risk of a wrong decision is preferable to the terror of indecision.
Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.
You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren’t busy denying them.
Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.
Make your choice and accept the consequences.
I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.
ACKNOWLEDGE, v.t. To confess. Acknowledgment of one another's faults is the highest duty imposed by our love of truth.
Listen, I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again.
I don't have to do the lead. If I dig a part, I'll do it.
You cannot solve a problem until you acknowledge that you have one and accept responsibility for solving it.
I have been wrong enough times to know that it is always a possibility.
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.
Even small challenges are big challenges for me. I take all challenges seriously. I do not differentiate between big and small challenges.
Before you judge me... I plead guilty
There are always and only two trains running. There is life and there is death. Each of us rides them both. To live life with dignity, to celebrate and accept responsibility for your presence in the world is all that can be asked of anyone.
If there is a purpose in life at all, there must be a purpose in suffering and in dying. But no man can tell another what this purpose is. Each must find out for himself, and must accept the responsibility that his answer prescribes. If he succeeds he will continue to grow in spite of all indignities.
It's always too late for sorries, but I appreciate the sentiment.
Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed.
Do yourself a favor. Don't ever say to me, 'Everything happens for a reason.'
The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."
The worst thing that can happen to you is if you don't take responsibility for what you did wrong.
If there is a stage at which an individual life becomes truly adult, it must be when one grasps the irony in its unfolding and accepts responsibility for a life lived in the midst of such paradox.
When I look back at 19, coming here to Chicago, some of the things that were said, some of the stuff that you deal with - at 19 years old, it's a lot of pressure.
Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
