Charles Studd Quotes

It takes guts to realize you screwed up and to then come clean without any excuses.

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

Either you look back and deal with your hypocrisy, or you dismiss it.

If I think something is right, I'll fight for it - always have. If it's wrong or I've been proved wrong, I'll walk away, and I'll apologise.

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.

If you know you've been out of order, then you must tell the truth.

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

If I'm wrong, I'm man enough to say I'm wrong.

Be honest about mistakes. Even if you are afraid of what people think.

I've always had a problem with people who couldn't tell the truth or admit a mistake and say they're wrong.

Every mistake you make allows you to be honest because what's in the dark will come to light, so it's better to be truthful about it.

My biggest pet peeve is when people don't admit what they've done.

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

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.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

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 most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: 'We did something wrong.' But nobody in a family like mine would ever respond like this.

It is a true man's part not to err, but it is also noble of a man to perceive his error.

I'd like to see one person - just one - who would own up to having been a coward.

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

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.

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

I am man enough to be able to admit my own mistakes. I think that is an important trait to have.