George MacDonald Quotes

I will always be the first to admit when I have done something wrong.

I will never attempt to even begin to make excuses for what I did in football.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

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

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

Looking back, I am ashamed that I have not always upheld the values that I profess and believe in.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.

I have trouble admitting I'm wrong.

It takes some courage to say you were wrong.

I must confess that I was not always the perfect boyfriend.

I think life would be a lot easier if people were able to stand in their mistakes and not backtrack. If you did something wrong, own it. Like, hold your own.

I've screwed up a lot, but I've always admitted it.

Have I made mistakes? Yes, I have. And I admit those.

I want to say to each of you, simply, and directly, I am deeply sorry for my irresponsible and selfish behavior I engaged in.

I've been guilty of most of the stuff that's been said about me to some degree. And if I ain't done it, I probably will.

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.

I wish I had a nickel for every time I fell and blamed someone else. I'd give a ton of money to the ones I've hurt.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

I do not plan in any way to whitewash my sin. I do not call it a mistake, a mendacity; I call it sin. I would much rather, if possible - and in my estimation it would not be possible - to make it worse than less than it actually is. I have no one but myself to blame. I do not lay the fault or the blame of the charge at anyone else's feet. For no one is to blame but I take the responsibility. I take the blame. I take the fault.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough in me to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.

The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.