Admitting You Are Wrong Quotes

#1. Consistency can be a trap, especially if it leads to being consistently wrong rather than to stopping, admitting your mistake, and changing course.

Jane Fonda

#2. Sometimes I think we keep secrets for the wrong reasons. If we could instead find that right person to talk to we might find that talking about an embarrassing story or admitting our frailty might lead to a more authentic relationship with others or ourselves.

Frank Warren

#3. I will never have greater respect than for the man that realizes he was wrong and graciously admits it without a single excuse.

Dan Pearce

#4. I would advise women not to be shy about admitting they've had Botox - it just shows you want to look your best, and there's nothing wrong with that.

Trinny Woodall

#5. It's been said that I have a problem admitting when I'm wrong. The main reason is because I never am.

Shamara Ray

#6. I'm a stubborn guy that loses his temper, sometimes driving the station wagon in the wrong direction for hours and hours and never admitting that he's gone the wrong way.

Matt Berninger

#7. I'm highly aware that some impulses are harder to ignore than others. I'm aware that fear of consequences causes us to guard our secrets. But it's our actions when faced with temptation that define who we are. It's our courage in admitting what we've done wrong that makes us forgivable.

Gena Showalter

#8. Doesn't matter," he said solemnly. "Men as a species are wrong. We're better off admitting it up front, taking our punishment and then hoping for good makeup sex.

Maya Banks

#9. I think that lawyers are terrible at admitting that they're wrong. And not just admitting it; also realizing it. Most lawyers are very successful, and they think that because they're making money and people think well of them, they must be doing everything right.

Alan Dershowitz

#10. The three most difficult things for a human being are not physical feats or intellectual achievements. They are, first, returning love for hate; second, including the excluded; third, admitting that you are wrong.

Anthony De Mello

#11. The rational approach start from the idea that everything is explainable and that mystery is in some sense the enemy. This means that it prefers pejorative, and even wrong, answers to admitting its own lack of understanding.

Jeremy Narby

#12. You can argue that the Terminator movies reboot their world each time they go back in time, but that doesn't negate the value of Terminator 1 and 2. So I don't really feel that way.

David Hayter

#13. Jacob stared for another minute, and then he suddenly frowned. "Well, damn!" he growled.

Stephenie Meyer

#14. Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience ... of admitting that "I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth."

Karl Popper

#15. You've always had a good grasp on what's right and wrong. You just have a hard time admitting that sometimes you choose the wrong.

Jessica Sorensen

#16. The fact is, Joe Isuzu is very successful at selling cars.

Jerry Della Femina

#17. It's easier to say, "I don't remember" when you're wrong.

Anthony Liccione

#18. If he's not going to apologize, I'm not going to be more than barely civil. I realize he is a boy and predisposed to abhor admitting he's wrong. He, however, has given me no reason to stick my neck out.

Tera Lynn Childs

#19. It was better that we never apologized to each other. Then we'd be admitting that we were wrong and we owed each other something. That's where people got into trouble.

Jennifer Echols

#20. One problem with making moral compromises is that doing the right thing becomes increasingly difficult: it requires admitting that one's earlier acts were wrong. In effect, to get clean, one must first get dirtier, a step that few proved willing to take.

Dan McMillan

#21. Maybe that is what growing up was all about. It was about changing your mind. Opening it right up. Admitting to yourself that you were wrong about stuff.

Matt Haig

#22. Because prayer is the best way to set a wrong thing right again. Admitting I don't have the answers. Asking the One who does for a bit of clarity. Putting myself back in my proper place in the universe.

Rachel Heffington

#23. I personally think that if you deny something or if you hide something you're inadvertently admitting it's wrong.

Amber Heard

#24. I'm in a world so wide. It makes me feel small sometimes.

Carrie Underwood

#25. Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It's hard to say you need to be forgiven.

Jane Casey

#26. If you have taught your child how to walk when he is all alone, it means that you have taught him everything!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. Something in me refused to be defeated by heartbreak. Oliver wasn't coming back but I wasn't going to abandon me either.

Kristel Villar

#28. If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants who look a lot like our own ancestors, not because there's anything wrong with them, but simply because admitting them would exceed our legal limit.

Jan C. Ting