Admit Quotes

Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee

Courage, Mistakes

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

Smart, Strong, Mistakes

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Steve Jobs

Best, Mistakes, Sometimes

I never will, by any word or act, bow to the shrine of intolerance or admit a right of inquiry into the religious opinions of others.
Thomas Jefferson

Others, Word, Act

I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Evil, Give

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
Mahatma Gandhi

Love, Evil, Give

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.
Dale Turner

Character, Mistakes, Mistake

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.
Marilyn Monroe

Women, Men, Gossip

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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try, Sense, Another

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

Today, Saying, Words

The more you observe politics, the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.
Will Rogers

Politics, Party, Worse

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.
Nora Ephron

Crazy, Sure, Fine

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.
Ogden Nash

Love, Marriage, Wrong

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.
Nelson Mandela

Mistake, Unlike

Immortality is a long shot, I admit. But somebody has to be first.
Bill Cosby

Long, Somebody, Shot

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Enough, Perfection, Insight

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Men, America

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.
Voltaire

Power, Feeling, Thinking

Somewhere it is written that parents who are critical of other people's children and publicly admit they can do better are asking for it.
Erma Bombeck

Children, Parents, Written

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
H. L. Mencken

Men, Between, Difference

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Politics, Mistake, Retreat

Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Try, Another, Means

I must admit that I personally measure success in terms of the contributions an individual makes to her or his fellow human beings.
Margaret Mead

Success, Human, Her

People are where they are because that is exactly where they really want to be - whether they will admit that or not.
Earl Nightingale

Whether, Exactly

To be radical, an empiricism must neither admit into its constructions any element that is not directly experienced, nor exclude from them any element that is directly experienced.
William James

Nor, Neither, Radical

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
Billie Jean King

Gay, May, Lesbian

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
Soren Kierkegaard

She, Quarrel, Oneself

I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away.
Phyllis Diller

Sex, Away, Lives

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
Bill Murray

Life, Family, Lonely

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.
Harvey Fierstein

Wrong, Few, Save

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