John McCain Quotes

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better.

America is big enough to admit when it's wrong and confident enough to learn from its mistakes.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

I think you can do something bad, and it doesn't make you a bad person. We are not defined by any one choice. We are the sum of our experiences, and we can make a bad choice and turn around and do better.

We're kind of defined by our mistakes.

I feel it's important to show that one thing that you do doesn't define you as a human being. It doesn't mean there aren't ramifications or you shouldn't pay for that but its not who you are.

You can't expect perfection. It is important to sort of acknowledge some of our imperfections. I write them down. There's something about acknowledging mistakes and being able to put them down on paper; they become facts of your life that you must live with. And then, hopefully, you can navigate the road a little bit better.

I'm human. I make mistakes.

I've made mistakes, and I'm very aware of them, and I've tried to better myself from those mistakes.

I'm human, and I make mistakes.

Looking back, I made my mistakes and I understand and learned from them.

Mistakes, once owned, apologized for, and buried, need to be an accepted part of life.

Everybody makes mistakes, and I am a human being.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I won't wait until the end of my term to say I made mistakes at the beginning. That's too late. I will try to adopt the proper behaviour, if the French give me the chance, right from the start.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

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

I'm not perfect; no one is perfect. Everyone makes mistakes. I think you try to learn from those mistakes.

We're always going to remind ourselves of our mistakes and how we do things differently, trying to be a better person or whatever.

All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes, or worse, seeking to hide them.

It is not our mistakes that define who we are; it is how we recover from those mistakes.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

I think I've been an incredible example to my kids of what not to do.