Admitting Your Own Faults Quotes & Sayings

Doing something once can be addicting. Doing it twice is admitting it. — Paul Morabito

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

He'd always been willing to confess his faults, for, by admitting them, it was as if he made them no longer exist. — Truman Capote

Take a pinch of snuff, doctor, and acknowledge that I have scored over you in your example. — Arthur Conan Doyle

I spent the past two years fearing the worst, that I chose safe arms to hold me when his arms weren't the arms I longed to be in, nor were they really safe. I thought it's what I deserved. I thought I couldn't belong in the arms I wanted to really hold me. — Andrea Michelle

You told me to tell the truth, and this is exactly why I didn't want to. You want me to think I'm selfish."
"I want you to own your thoughts and actions, and not be afraid of them. Accepting your limitations is every bit as important as embracing your strengths. — Dawn Jayne

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive — Ronald Reagan

Sometimes the hardest thing is admitting you were wrong. It's hard to say you need to be forgiven. — Jane Casey

The transition from lost to found is never an easy one. It is never easy to be a prodigal son
or daughter. It is never easy to say, 'I will arise and go to my father ... ' (Luke 15:18, 19). This is never easy, because it is not until our situation becomes completely hopeless that we can humble ourselves to the extent of admitting that such a gross mistake was our own. — Robert L. Short

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

It's easier to say, "I don't remember" when you're wrong. — Anthony Liccione

Just as nothing is more foolish than misplaced wisdom, so too, nothing is more imprudent than perverse prudence. And surely it is perverse not to adapt yourself to the prevailing circumstances, to refuse 'to do as the Romans do,' to ignore the party-goer's maxium 'take a drink or take your leave,' to insist that the play should not be a play. True prudence, on the other hand, recognizes human limitations and does not strive to leap beyond them; it is willing to run with the herd, to overlook faults tolerantly or to share them in a friendly spirit. But, they say, that is exactly what we mean by folly. (I will hardly deny it
as long as they will reciprocate by admitting that this is exactly what is means to perform the play of life.) — Desiderius Erasmus