Quotes About Honest Mistakes

#1. I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

Henry Rollins

#2. Everybody makes honest mistakes, but there's no such thing as an honest cover-up.

Price Pritchett

#3. Punishing honest mistakes stifles creativity. I want people moving and shaking the earth and they're going to make mistakes.

Ross Perot

#4. When you're broken, everything gets a little honester - you make mistakes and don't give a damn - you give up on perfection, but get real ...

John Geddes

#5. We must be open to our mistakes and grow. Growth isn't based on being perfect, but moving toward the best we can be by being honest.

Tsem Tulku

#6. Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

James Altucher

#7. If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.

Keith Millard

#8. If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.

George Muller

#9. Well I think that you have to be open and honest in order to learn from your mistakes and be able to correct them in the future to understand what would happen to take things off course. And if we don't address these issues openly and honestly then we don't learn.

Scott McClellan

#10. I can never be a person who has not made mistakes. But I can be someone honest who has lived through them: one of those who look you square in the eye and say, 'This is how it has been, and it is okay.

George Hodgman

#11. He is ever inglorious
His laugh is laborious
His smell is notorious
Impale the herring king!

Shannon Hale

#12. I have learned to accept the fact that I will make mistakes at nearly every turn, but that those mistakes can be softened if I am honest about who I am to my girls.

Liane Holliday Willey

#13. Even the most honest human in authority often does not have the power to undo the damages that bad people do.

Auliq Ice

#14. We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

King Hussein

#15. Begin with praise and honest appreciation. Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly. Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person. Ask questions instead of giving direct orders. Make the fault easy to correct. Make the other person happy about doing what you suggest.

Dale Carnegie

#16. I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

Nicole Richie

#17. I was always flattered, but I just want my movies to make money. I want to be commercial. I'm never the person who says, "I don't care if people don't see my movies." I always want people to see my movies.

John Waters

#18. There are times when you just need to acknowledge the shit ... You just need to acknowledge it. Face the shit ... Accept the truth in it. Own it, wallow in it, become one with the shit.

Amy Harmon

#19. 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

#20. You have to be OK with your own fears. If you're an honest person, you'll make mistakes, but that's when the most interesting things happen.

Kristen Stewart

#21. The lone guard was asleep at his desk. Loch thoughtfully woke him up by prodding his throat with her sword, and it was agreed that the guard would spend the night peacefully and quietly bound and gagged in the broom closet.

Patrick Weekes

#22. They had a good marriage, a solid relationship that had endured its ups and downs because they'd learned from the mistakes they'd made during their tumultuous beginning. What they'd built together was open and honest and there wasn't anything they couldn't talk about with one another.

Kimberley Reeves

#23. My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.

Neil Diamond

#24. I don't know Hollywood very well. I've never lived in Los Angeles or New York. But what I can see in Paris, where I live, is that actresses like Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Charlotte Rampling, still get the chance to play strong, sexy roles even though they're not 20.

Monica Bellucci

#25. First, they had good character. They were energetic, honest, and dependable. They were persistent after setbacks and acknowledged their mistakes.

David Brooks

#26. Holding our own government to account for the use of its power is, in my view, the highest mission of a U.S. news organization.

Barton Gellman

#27. If you are unable to admit your mistakes, you cannot expect others to forgive them. Be honest and sincere, there is no shame in that.

Shelley K. Wall

#28. He's getting dumped. And he doesn't even know it yet. He's probably eating a cheeseburger or flossing or picking up his dry cleaning, and he has no idea. No inkling.

Sarah Dessen

#29. To live an honest life you have to strive hard, get involved, fight, make mistakes, begin something and give it up, begin again, struggle endlessly, and suffer loss. As for tranquility - it's spiritual baseness.

Leo Tolstoy

#30. A former congressman on his sexting habit: I have made terrible mistakes. I have not been honest with myself, my family, my constituents, my friends and supporters and the media.

Anthony Weiner

#31. Soccer has given me a place to express myself, fully and openly. To not be shy. To feel. To be crazy. To try things I might not try. To be honest in relationships. To make mistakes and realize that they're not life-shattering.

Brandi Chastain

#32. The problem would not exist if I asked beforehand. Hence, it is vital to ask honest questions (even if it sounds "stupid") rather than making assumptions. Everybody makes mistakes; the good news is that everything can be fixed.

Anna Agoncillo

#33. We are honest about our methods and our mistakes. We are not perfect - it isn't possible to be perfect - but we are trying to go in the right direction and in those circumstances, it's best not to mystify what we are trying to do.

Anita Roddick

#34. As long as I can compete, I won't quit. Reaching three-thousand is not the finish line as long as I can contribute.

Cal Ripken Jr.