Top 64 Mistake Admit Quotes
#1. Don't lie about it. You made a mistake. Admit it and move on. Just don't do it again. Ever
Anthony Bourdain
#2. Don't argue for other people's weaknesses. Don't argue for your own. When you make a mistake, admit it, correct it, and learn from it / immediately.
Stephen R. Covey
#3. If you make a mistake, admit it. Any attempt at cover-up will ultimately backfire. At some level the patient will sense you are acting in bad faith, and therapy will suffer. Furthermore, an open admission of error is good model-setting for patients and another sign that they matter to you.
Irvin D. Yalom
#4. I call it the "Fuck up, own up, and get up" policy. Make a mistake, admit it, and move on. We all screw up, but a man solves his problems. He doesn't make them worse.
Penelope Douglas
#5. The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
Dale Turner
#6. Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
Pat Summitt
#7. Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.
Masaaki Imai
#8. Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward.
Maxwell Maltz
#9. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale Turner
#10. We're taught as young kids Acknowledge your mistakes, admit your lies, ... It's cathartic. That's what I think the speech did. He didn't just try to blame someone else.
Mark Foley
#11. The best way of dealing with the press, customers, and critics is to come clean when things go wrong and admit when you make a mistake. We are humans, and no one expects us to be perfect.
Vivek Wadhwa
#12. Although it pains me to admit it, I am quite familiar with the holes in life. And this familiarity is due to the fact that I spend far more time in these holes than I spend on the paths that brought me to them.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#13. 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.
Robert Kiyosaki
#14. I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.
Burt Bacharach
#15. I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.
Violante Placido
#16. Members of trusting teams admit weaknesses and mistakes, take risks in offering feedback and assistance, and focus time and energy on important issues, not politics.
Patrick Lencioni
#17. Don't forget that in Thailand you're brought up never to admit a mistake.
Jo Nesbo
#18. Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being too ready to admit a mistake.
Karl Popper
#19. I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.
Bianca Jagger
#20. Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.
John J. McCloy
#21. While this debate today is a belated effort to inform the American people, it is nevertheless an empty gesture. It is time to admit our mistake in Iraq and begin to bring our troops home with honor.
Raul Grijalva
#22. If you're allowed to make your mistakes, I think you should. But people don't really like hearing you admit them. Although I'd never wanted to dump on the musicians that were involved in that ... Because it was not their fault.
Joe Strummer
#23. I know I'll never be put in the position of making the adulterous mistake, but there are mistakes along the way that are as complicated, that get blown out of proportion because you're not willing to admit that you've made them.
John Krasinski
#24. So, he made this report to me. Now, make no mistake, Ty, I take my work seriously but I gotta admit, he gave this report, I lost my pen. Swear to God, don't know where I put that fucker.
Kristen Ashley
#25. I hope never to see the day that I cannot admit having made a mistake.
Gerald R. Ford
#26. Because democratic institutions do not renew themselves as effortlessly as flowering trees, they demand the ceaseless tinkering of people who possess both the courage and the honesty to admit their mistakes and accept responsibility for even the most inglorious acts.
Bill Vaughan
#27. Admit that you're wrong- or that you've made a mistake.
Richard Carlson
#28. 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.
Bear Bryant
#29. Have the courage to be exactly who you are without apology. Admit your mistakes without beating yourself up. Release all shame! Release all guilt! You cannot live if you are hiding behind what was. Focus on what is, right now, and that is you!
Iyanla Vanzant
#30. Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.
Pat Summitt
#31. I am the first to admit I have made a couple of mistakes: two trips to rehab, Rudebox, the album, Geri Halliwell. I should have gone for Victoria, really, shouldn't I? I'd have been really famous.
Robbie Williams
#32. To maintain the ability to admit and grow from our mistakes rather than let them defeat us represents best the inner strength of a people.
Haki R. Madhubuti
#33. Many people will admit that they made a mistake [putting money in dot-coms or telecoms at their peak] But that doesn't mean that they've changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn't mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.
Daniel Kahneman
#34. Superior leaders are willing to admit a mistake and cut their losses. Be willing to admit that you've changed your mind. Don't persist when the original decision turns out to be a poor one.
Brian Tracy
#35. I think the most important thing to do is to be willing to listen, willing to care, and willing to admit mistakes and change your ways for the better!
Jane Goodall
#36. Mr. Churchill connected truly to what was in the hearts of the British people, which is what a buoyant leader does. One of his most famous quotes is about making mistakes and learning from them. He wasn't shy to admit when things went wrong.
Kevin Allen
#37. His impunity thrills me, I mistake it for fearlessness, though years later he will admit to being afraid all the time.
Nick Flynn
#39. He [Bloch] was one of those touchy, highly-strung people who cannot bear to have made a blunder, will not admit it to themselves, and whose whole day is ruined by it.
Marcel Proust
#40. Nobody likes to admit that they made a mistake, but if you do, you have to stand up and take responsibility and you have to say that you were wrong.
Lara Logan
#41. 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.
David Ogilvy
#42. A cardinal rule of bureaucracy is that it is better to extend an error than to admit a mistake.
Colin Greenwood
#43. We never like to admit to ourselves that we have made a mistake. Organizational structures tend to accentuate this source of failure of information.
Kenneth E. Boulding
#44. I don't think it's weak to admit you made a mistake. That takes strength, if you ask me.
Terry Pratchett
#45. The freedom to make and admit mistakes is at the core of the scientific process. If we are asked to forswear error, or worse, to say that error means fraud, then we cannot function as scientists.
Robert Pollack
#46. Leaders must be tough enough to fight, tender enough to cry, human enough to make mistakes, humble enough to admit them, strong enough to absorb the pain, and resilient enough to bounce back and keep on moving.
Jesse Jackson
#47. It's especially hard to admit that you made a mistake to your parents, because, of course, you know so much more than they do.
Sean Covey
#48. For usually people resist as long as they can to dismiss the fool they harbor in their bosom, they resist to confess a major mistake or to admit a truth that makes them despair.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#49. In a political campaign, you can never ever retract anything or admit a mistake."
"Obviously, John subscribes to the Napoleon school of politics," Sophie says. "And look where he ended up...
Maria Malonzo
#50. Men. The day they learned to admit to a mistake was the day they became women.
Julia Quinn
#51. Since most of us are stubborn to admit that we made a mistake, we would rather settle for what we bought.
Anna Agoncillo
#52. You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any?
Shawn Colvin
#53. Fortunately, there was government by consent of the governed in America - but just as unfortunately, such governments dearly hate to admit a mistake.
T.R. Fehrenbach
#54. Admit your errors before someone else exaggerates them.
Andrew Mason
#55. Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
Nelson Mandela
#56. 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.
Dale Carnegie
#57. What do do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
Dean Smith
#58. In 27 years of reporting from Washington, I've never heard a President admit he made a mistake.
Sam Donaldson
#59. In politics ... never retreat, never retract ... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#60. Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.
Evan Harris
#61. A teachable spirit and a humbleness to admit your ignorance or your mistake will save you a lot of pain. However, if you're a person who knows it all, then you've got a lot of heavy-hearted experiences coming your way.
Ron Carpenter Jr.
#62. Yet while Owllwin was arrogant, he was also humble enough to admit when he had made a mistake. Perhaps it was his sheer clumsiness that kept him so humble: the first time he spoke to Cricket was in the great dining hall, and he brought down six tables five minutes after.
Ash Gray
#63. Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.
Dale Carnegie
#64. I have witnessed boards that continued to waste money on doomed projects because no one was prepared to admit they were failures, take the blame and switch course. Smaller outfits are more willing to admit mistakes and dump bad ideas.
Luke Johnson
