The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.
Nelson MandelaBad performances can happen and are not that serious – even with new players. You can’t, say, sell him, get a new one.
Jurgen KloppI often say to people that producing is the best-paid form of cowardice. When you produce things, you almost always get credit if it’s a good record, but you hardly ever get the blame if it’s not! You don’t really take responsibility for your work.
Brian EnoLeave no authority existing not responsible to the people.
Thomas JeffersonTo state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. KennedyWe are not spending the Federal Government’s money, we are spending the taxpayer’s money, and it must be spent n a way which guarantees his money’s worth and yields the fullest possible benefit to the people being helped.
Richard M. NixonSome people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.
Greta ThunbergWhen you campaign and have to participate in so many debates just to the win the nomination of your party, you’ve had a lot of practice. You get to figure out as you go from one debate to another where you made your mistakes. By the time you get to the big debate you’re pretty polished.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThe government’s job is good governance for everybody. My government will make policies; if you fit into it, come on board, or stay where you are. My job is not to spoon-feed anyone.
Narendra ModiYou must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I’m innocent. You’ve got to believe I’m innocent. If you don’t, take my job.
Richard M. NixonI strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.
Kamala HarrisThe great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers.
Herbert HooverPolitical necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard ShawHistory will point out some of the things I did wrong and some of the things I did right.
George H. W. BushI want the Israeli government to be made accountable for its behaviour to the Palestinians, and I want the people of the U.S. to cease acting as if they don’t understand what is going on.
Alice WalkerConfession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
Mahatma GandhiDecisiveness is a characteristic of high-performing men and women. Almost any decision is better than no decision at all.
Brian TracyThe absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse.
Benjamin FranklinIf you get your ego in your way, you will only look to other people and circumstances to blame.
Jocko WillinkAny action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.
Eckhart TolleYou can’t score if you’re turning it over. It’s like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you’re not scoring points. That’s not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you’re giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.
Tom BradyI tend to feel if people say they’re going to do something, they will, if given the chance.
Margaret AtwoodHe that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
Benjamin FranklinI know I have a responsibility to the fans.
Jackie ChanThere is no sin except stupidity.
Oscar WildeI made my fair share of mistakes.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerThere’s room for role models who make mistakes.
Taylor SwiftDoctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Napoleon BonaparteWhen I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, ‚Did you sleep good?‘ I said ‚No, I made a few mistakes.‘
Steven WrightIt is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.
Vincent Van GoghWe should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard ShawYes, sir, no, sir, clock in, clock out. Why were you late? Why are you not in today? That’s not how humans are supposed to live.
Conor McGregorWith regard to donations always expect the most from prudent people, who keep their own accounts.
Joseph AddisonI don’t believe in collective guilt, but I do believe in collective responsibility.
Audrey HepburnThe thing that motivates me is a very common form of motivation. And that is, with other folks counting on me, it’s so easy to be motivated.
Jeff BezosEverybody will make mistakes, and for some that mistake will rise to the level of being a crime.
Kamala HarrisHistory isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.
C. S. LewisThe human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.
Christopher HitchensI’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.
Steve JobsI stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.
Dan QuayleWhen a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard ShawI think, often, people who run away are people who got into things most enthusiastically, and then they want more. They just demand more of life than what is happening in the moment. Sometimes this is a great mistake, as it’s always a good deal different than you expect it.
Alice MunroNo one gets away with anything, ever, so take responsibility for your own life.
Jordan PetersonIt is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.
Thomas SowellWe are not punished for our sins, but by them.
Elbert HubbardI always want to listen to people and receive good criticism, but I just don’t have to answer to them; I have to answer to God.
Joel OsteenMistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.
Salvador DaliWe must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
Ronald ReaganAn individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
Robert Baden-PowellI haven’t been faithful to my own advice in the past. I will in the future.
Billy GrahamFree government is the most difficult of all government. But it is everlastingly true that the plain people will make fewer mistakes than any other group of men, no matter how powerful.
Herbert HooverNaturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.
Clint EastwoodStart a part-time business and make as many mistakes as you possibly can while you still have your daytime job.
Robert KiyosakiWhen you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don’t know you think.
Beyonce KnowlesEverybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
Billy GrahamFailure is not a single, cataclysmic event. You don’t fail overnight. Instead, failure is a few errors in judgement, repeated every day.
Jim RohnI have offended God and mankind because my work didn’t reach the quality it should have.
Leonardo da VinciI think the great part about what I do is that there’s a scoreboard. At the end of every week, you know how you did. You know how well you prepared. You know whether you executed your game plan. There’s a tangible score.
Tom BradyIf I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people – including me – would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.
Hunter S. ThompsonMy biggest error? Something that is to happen yet.
Ayrton Senna