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  • This is Hollywood. People don't admit mistakes. -- Ellen Pompeo
  • Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes. -- Masaaki Imai
  • As long as you have the courage to admit mistakes, things can be turned around. -- Haruki Murakami
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The list of qualities (an investor should have) include patience, self-reliance, common sense, a tolerance for pain, open-mindedness, detachment, persistence, humility, flexibility, a willingness to do independent research, an equal willingness to admit mistakes, and the ability to ignore general panic. -- Peter Lynch
  • Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake. -- Robert Half
  • Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake. -- Nelson Mandela
  • I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it. -- Jean Kerr
  • In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them. -- Bruce Lee
  • I will be the first to admit I am not perfect and I make mistakes. -- Alberto Gonzales
  • America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes. -- Dianne Feinstein
  • 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
  • A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. -- John C. Maxwell
  • Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations. -- Steve Jobs
  • Frankly, I've got to admit that I'm not perfect and have made some mistakes as some of the colourful stories about me reveal. -- Peter Slipper
  • We're often afraid of looking at our shadow because we want to avoid the shame or embarrassment that comes along with admitting mistakes. -- Marianne Williamson
  • If both John McCain and Obama were given a sip of truth serum, both would admit they made serious mistakes in choosing running mates in 2008. -- Douglas Wilder
  • Strong people make as many mistakes as weak people. Difference is that strong people admit their mistakes, laugh at them, learn from them. That is how they become strong. -- Richard J. Needham
  • 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
  • Admitting weakness seems to be such a severe psychic threat for Bush that when he makes a mistake it's safer just to reinforce it. The strategy creates a perverse system of rewards and punishments. -- Tina Brown
  • 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
  • The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. -- Anthony Burgess
  • Even as I stand here and admit that we have made mistakes I still believe that as the people of America sit in judgment on each party, they will recognize that our mistakes were mistakes of the heart. They'll recognize that. -- Barbara Jordan
  • Admit your mistakes but don't cry over them. Correct them and go forward. -- Maxwell Maltz
  • You say in life, mistakes are many. How come you never admit to any? -- Shawn Colvin
  • Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on. -- Evan Harris
  • Admit to and make yourself accountable for mistakes. How can you improve if you're never wrong? -- Pat Summitt
  • No one is perfect and we all make mistakes, but not all of us admit to mistakes made. -- Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
  • It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. -- Dale E. Turner
  • The earlier you admit to your mistakes, the more time you would have to learn and grow from them. -- Edmond Mbiaka
  • Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
  • 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
  • If people are looking for someone who has never changed their mind and is unwilling to admit they make mistakes, that's not me. -- Mitt Romney
  • President Mandela was never scared to admit his own mistakes and then almost jump at the opportunity of apologising and then to move on. -- Zelda la Grange
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • People respect those who know how to admit their own mistakes and see their own weaknesses. If you heart is as transparent as crystal, people will respect you. -- Sunday Adelaja
  • 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
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