Top 100 Wrong Admit Quotes
#1. To keep one's marriage brimming,
With love in the wedding cup,
Whenever you're wrong admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up. - Ogden Nash
Meg Cabot
#3. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
Dale Carnegie
#4. When you're wrong admit it, when you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
#5. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash
#6. The true measure of a real man is that he has the ability to admit when he is wrong, apologize, and make amends to those he wronged
Richard Ashworth
#7. Size isn't important', he quipped.
I have never adhered to this view. As far as I'm concerned, people who say size isn't important, aren't big enough to admit that they're wrong
Tony Hawks
#8. 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.
Alexander Pope
#9. Spiritual maturity does not mean that we will never make wrong plans. In fact, spiritual maturity often means having the courage to admit we've made the wrong plans.
Beth Moore
#10. I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.
Aaron Carter
#12. The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.
Jodi Picoult
#13. 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
#14. Don't be shy to say "I am sorry"; Never feel too big to say "Please forgive me"; Don't think it's unnecessary to say "thank you"; Never feel bad to admit "I am wrong"! That's a good tactics is communication!
Israelmore Ayivor
#15. It is quite gratifying to feel guilty if you haven't done anything wrong: how noble! Whereas it is rather hard and certainly depressing to admit guilt and to repent.
Hannah Arendt
#16. Never do anything that you can't admit doing, because if you are that ashamed of whatever it is, it's probably wrong.
Ashly Lorenzana
#17. His dad said if you did something wrong to someone in public, you ought to admit it in public, too.
Suzanne Collins
#18. 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
#19. All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.
Raymond Carver
#20. As a teenager, Michel believed that suffering conferred dignity on a person. Now he had to admit that he had been wrong. What conferred dignity on people was television.
Michel Houellebecq
#21. there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no right, and that maybe at the same time there is no wrong. But in this case I was wrong and I appreciate Vivian Baxter for being big enough to accept my apology.
Maya Angelou
#22. For most of us, I think it's easier to admit doing wrong than being stupid.
Stephen King
#23. In whatever work environment, whether we admit it or not, there is always a little part of us that has been or will be tempted by a lifestyle for the wrong reasons.
Dominic Cooper
#24. To be right, be willing to admit you are wrong.
Ken Keyes Jr.
#25. We shall act with good intentions, but at times we will be wrong. When we are, let us admit it and try to right the situation.
Joe Paterno
#26. Perinthia's astronomers are faced with a difficult choice. Either they must admit that all their calculations are wrong and their figures are unable to describe the heavens, or else they must reveal that the order of the gods is reflected exactly in the city of monsters.
Italo Calvino
#27. When you get down to the nitty gritty, isn't it a pity that in this big city not one little bitty man will admit that he could have been a little wrong.
Elvis Presley
#28. For a long time I thought I should be a civil engineer. That seemed to be the only thing worth doing, and I chose the wrong subjects at A-level. I read all the sciences to start with, and then had to admit, 'This isn't what I want to do' and changed course.
Ian Hislop
#29. Tell me, Constantine, who was afraid of what?
There was no sense in answering. No matter what Con said, Ulrik would never admit that he was wrong and Con was right.
Donna Grant
#30. This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.
Edward De Bono
#31. I do not admit ... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia ... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race ... has come in and taken its place.
Winston Churchill
#32. I felt as if I learned a few things. I learned that it's sometimes okay to think like a weenie, so long as you don't act like one - at least not all the time. I learned that it's okay to be wrong, as long as you can admit it and are willing to listen to those who may know better.
D.J. MacHale
#33. It's okay not to know all the answers. It's better to admit our ignorance than to believe answers that might be wrong. Pretending to know everything, closes the door to finding out what's really there.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#34. One thing about me, when I'm wrong I'll admit it. Well. That's a good trait to have.
Cormac McCarthy
#35. You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday
Jonathan Swift
#36. Self-righteousness is an especially heady condition that all of us have experienced at one time or another. Those who are honest will admit there is something sickly-sweet and alluring about knowing you are right, while others are terribly wrong.
David Brin
#37. It is difficult to admit that one is wrong. Particularly when one has been wrong for a very long time.
Fredrik Backman
#38. She wanted to make sure she studied all the manuals thoroughly, but she had to admit that part of her hesitation was the unsettling length of the list of things that could go wrong if she mishandled the pressure.
Jaleigh Johnson
#39. George W. Bush will have to come to the UN and admit that he was wrong.
Bianca Jagger
#41. That is a lethal combination - cocky plus wrong - especially when a more prudent option exists: simply admit that the future is far less knowable than you think.
Steven D. Levitt
#42. To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be counted on your fingers.
Francoise Gilot
#43. I have to stay on top of myself with honesty and be very forthcoming, quickly admit when I'm wrong, you know? I have a whole system that works for me, and that's part of my worldview now.
Dax Shepard
#44. If we are honest with ourselves, we have to admit that sometimes our assumptions and preconceived notions are wrong, and therefore, our interpretation of events is incorrect. This causes us to overreact, to take things personally, or to judge people unfairly.
Elizabeth Thornton
#45. A failure often does not have to be a failure at all. However, you have to be ready for it-will you admit when things go wrong? Will you take steps to set them right?-because the difference between triumph and defeat, you'll find, isn't about willingness to take risks. It's about mastery of rescue.
Atul Gawande
#46. I hated to admit it, but he was all sorts of sexy felon. God, what was wrong with me? That kiss had made me stupid.
Jay Crownover
#47. I don't want you to explain. I want you to convince me I'm wrong. Or admit I'm right.
Chris Pavone
#48. It is better to do wrong seldom and to own it, and to act right for the most part, than seldom to admit that you have done wrong and to do wrong often.
Epictetus
#49. Never admit you're wrong when silence lies that you're right.
Faith Hunter
#50. Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy ... and a few friendships too.
Harvey Fierstein
#51. It is hard to repent, to admit you are wrong on faith alone before the evidence of a feeling of being forgiven and light comes.
Henry B. Eyring
#52. When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.
Abraham Lincoln
#53. If something doesn't work, you have to admit it. Always try to find what's going right and what's going wrong with your music. If you can, pool your resources and record yourself; do that frequently.
Steve Forbert
#54. Sometimes we need to look at everything going wrong in our lives and admit to ourselves, I am the only common denominator here.
Dan Pearce
#55. Allow yourself to feel things. Admit when you're wrong.
Lorene Scafaria
#56. I'm going to write a book someday and the title will be I'm an Ass, You're an Ass. That's the most liberating, wonderful thing in the world, when you openly admit you're an ass. It's wonderful. When people tell me, You're wrong I say, What can you expect of an ass?
Anthony De Mello
#58. How hard is it, when what lies in the balance is something you love, to admit you're wrong?
Kristen Ashley
#59. The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.
Jack McDevitt
#60. I had no patience with anyone who put down other kids because of their race, religion, or sexuality. But that's just one kind of open-mindedness. There's another kind, too, the kind that's willing to see people for who they really are and admit when you were wrong about them.
Kelley Armstrong
#61. Then what is a master? A master is someone who actualizes her enlightenment in every day living. Everyone already knows what is right and wrong. But we do not admit hat we know from right and wrong because we don't want to take responsibility that comes with such admission.
Ilchi Lee
#62. I was wrong. I admit it. I believed that there were things which still mattered just because they had mattered once. But I was wrong. Nothing matters but breath, breathing, to know and to be alive.
William Faulkner
#63. You can only manage to convince a person to admit to being wrong, not ignorant, arrogant, or stupid.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#64. If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else." "I know. An overwhelming passion for it." "No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong.
Anthony De Mello
#65. Admit it or not, you care about what others think about you. People who declare they don't are more likely pretentious. You cannot stop caring. It is in your nature. But it is absolutely wrong to live your life for others, to make your decisions based on other people's perceptions and expectations.
Grace Scott
#66. Open your mind, this is only a song,
But the way to be happy is to admit you were wrong.
Matt Haig
#67. Belief is a dangerous thing," Norbert said. "It can blind you. It can consume you. It can make you unable to admit you're wrong.
Alex Siegel
#68. I'd always felt like it was only weak people who turned to God, but at that moment I realized maybe I was wrong: perhaps it was the other way around. Only those who were strong enough to admit their own, human limitations would know when to seek help and guidance.
Brownell Landrum
#69. It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having.
Carl Sagan
#70. Never be ashamed to admit you were wrong. It only shows you are smarter today than you were yesterday.
Marilyn Taylor Klam
#71. And it never occurs to anyone to admit a greatness that is not commensurate with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable puniness.
Leo Tolstoy
#72. If an angel could admit she was wrong about a vampire, maybe there was hope for
the werepanthers in East Hampton after all.
Shari Richardson
#73. No.
You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it.
You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.
Darren Shan
#74. Two elements of successful leadership: a willingness to be wrong and an eagerness to admit it.
Seth Godin
#75. I'm willing to admit that I may not always be right, but I am never wrong.
Samuel Goldwyn
#76. Yet people see only what they expect to see, and will search for evidence to support what they already believe. It is a rare person indeed who is humble enough to admit that he has been wrong.
C.A. Gray
#77. People who carry a musical soul about them are, I think, more receptive than others. They smile more readily. One feels in them a pleasant propensity toward the lesser sins, a pleasing readiness also to admit the possibility that on occasion they may be in the wrong
they may be mistaken.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
#78. Okay, there were a lot of uncomfortable conversations a person had to have in their life. When they broke up with someone, for one. When they fucked up and had to admit they were wrong, for another. But talking to a dude who had his balls cut off about his balls being cut off beat them all.
Kristen Ashley
#79. and many people are ego-defensive, meaning they can't admit when they've done something wrong because it makes them feel bad about themselves. So I thought instead of emphasizing self-esteem,
Elise Ballard
#80. 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
#81. For her it had always been easy to apologize. It was simple to admit her mistakes because otherwise they seemed to lie across her lap paralyzing her until she said those two words. Then her blunder flew away to the trees where all wrong deeds lived after being made right.
Sarah Noffke
#82. Admit when you're wrong. It doesn't fix a busted leg, of course, but it's a nice gesture none-the-less.
Jesse Petersen
#83. 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
#84. Just because someone tells you that you will never amount to anything doesn't mean you have to prove them right. Prove them wrong by succeeding. There is no sweeter revenge than making someone eat their words. Even if they don't admit they're wrong about you, you will know.
Blaque Diamond
#86. The tyrannosaurus looked a little shamefaced - but only a little, for dinosaurs would rather drown in tar than admit they're wrong. That unfortunate attitude played a key role in their extinction.
Catherynne M Valente
#87. All that was speculation, and a man can get carried away by a reasonable theory. Often a man finds a theory that explains things and he builds atop that theory, finding all the right answers ... only the basic theory is wrong. But that's the last thing he will want to admit.
Louis L'Amour
#88. Why should we believe people who constantly try to push these trade agreements and won't even admit when one has gone wrong? It makes working people feel like the process is rigged. The reason is, it is rigged.
Russ Feingold
#89. 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
#90. One of the biggest problems with people who think that they are smart is that they believe that the number of times they admit that they are wrong is inversely proportional to their
intellectual level.
Daniel Willey
#91. I'll admit it, the grunge trend doesn't really speak to me. I get why other people like it, but it's just not my style. Don't get me wrong, I love layering, but I like it when it is done with a little more polish and sophistication.
Nina Garcia
#92. Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong?
Pat Summitt
#93. And it occurs to no one that to admit a greatness not commensurable with the standard of right and wrong is merely to admit one's own nothingness and immeasurable meanness.
Leo Tolstoy
#94. To make mistakes or be wrong is human. To admit those mistakes shows you have the ability to learn, and are growing wiser.
Donald L. Hicks
#95. Authentic men aren't afraid to show affection, release their feelings, hug their children, cry when they're sad, admit it when they're wrong, and ask for help when they need it.
Charles R. Swindoll
#96. Exactly patriotic. My country, right or wrong. Which means nothing, unless you admit your country is wrong sometimes. Loving a country that was right all the time would be common sense, not patriotism." Griezman
Lee Child
#97. It needs a lot of courage to admit to an action that one is ashamed of and knows to be wrong. One's reluctance to hurt someone else is just an excuse; in fact it is lack of courage.
Ivan Klima
#98. I can admit when I'm wrong Decebel, geez. It just happens so rarely that it kind of catches me by surprise.
Quinn Loftis
#99. It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.
Billy Joel
#100. The entire world is falling apart because nobody will admit they are wrong.
Donald Miller
