Admitting Mistakes Quotes

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

It's OK to be wrong. You learn from your wrongs. You don't learn from being right. If you're right, you already know it. If you're wrong, it's because you don't know about it, and you made a mistake.

You have so often been right that it is perfectly possible that I am wrong…

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

If you are terrified of making mistakes, you will be reluctant to acknowledge them when you do make them-and therefore you will not correct them.

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.

If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.

Without intellectual honesty, you can't have a culture that's willing to tolerate failure because people cling too much to an idea that likely will be bad or isn't working and they feel like their reputation is tied up in it. They can't admit failure.

Making mistakes isn't enough to become great. You must also admit the mistake, and then learn how to turn that mistake into an advantage.

The mentality always in reggaeton was, 'I'm the man.' I made that cool to say, 'I messed up. I'm not the best.'

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

Accountability doesn't mean apologizing.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong.

It is one thing to make a mistake, and quite another thing not to admit it. People will forgive mistakes, because mistakes are usually of the mind, mistakes of judgment. But people will not easily forgive the mistakes of the heart, the ill intention, the bad motives, the prideful justifying cover-up of the first mistake.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right.

The wise and the brave dares own that he was wrong.

As President I'll make mistakes because I'm going to do things ... and people who do things err.

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

I'm not going to sit here and say I know everything about everything. I definitely have work to do. The thing is, I'm willing to admit that.

I'm only rich because I know when I'm wrong.

The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devilishly hard