Owning Mistakes Quotes

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

Over the years, I learned that in my career, unlike in life, sometimes my wheelchair is its own automatic door opener. I was able to win the OWN competition by applying one simple principle: be funny, and admit you suck before anyone else can call you out on it. In other words, make the narrative of your failure a comedy.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

The chief trick to making good mistakes is not to hide them - especially not from yourself. Instead of turning away in denial when you make a mistake, you should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes, turning them over in your mind as if they were works of art, which in a way they are.

I like people admitting they were complete stupid horses' asses. I know I'll perform better if I rub my nose in my mistakes. This is a wonderful trick to learn.

I started lip-synching with "Losing My Religion." There were a few horrendous mistakes we made, but I own those mistakes. I'm embarrassed by them. I always say when I look back at anything I've ever done, it's with equal dollops of humiliation and triumphant glory.

The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.

Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

The ability to say 'I was wrong' or to own up to your mistakes is very powerful. I teach my children that admitting fault is the quickest way to stop the problem, move on and get on with whatever it is you should be doing.

I have a no-apology policy.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

If there is an error of human judgment, I am the human.

It is easier to confess a defect than to claim a quality.

I'm not going to make any excuses. I just went out and stunk it up tonight.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

It is important to admit your mistakes, and to do so before you are charged with them. Many clients are surrounded by buckpassers who make a fine art of blaming the agency for their own failures. I seize the earliest opportunity to assume the blame.

I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.

I learned a long time ago that no one wants to hear excuses.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

When you make a mistake, you have to admit it.

I'm pretty klutzy and I've always been, so I have to own up to it. It's part of my charm!

I'm not the person that when he has an off shooting game is going to make excuses.

I have always addressed any mistakes I have made and will keep doing so. It's nothing I duck away from.

I think life would be a lot easier if people were able to stand in their mistakes and not backtrack. If you did something wrong, own it. Like, hold your own.