Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

As a public figure, you have to maintain a certain demeanor. We also have responsibility to the public, but of course, I'm not perfect. I have a lot of flaws; my husband can tell you that, my friends, even. They know who I am.

Today I acknowledge that I am not in position to judge what mistakes anyone is making or what lessons anyone needs to learn. I don’t know how far someone has come or when that person will have a breakthrough, I simply don’t know what other people should be doing. But when I think I do know, I clearly am not doing what I should be doing, which is taking responsibility for my own life.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

You have to own your mistakes, otherwise your mistakes own you

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

A leader is a person who must take special responsibility for what's going on inside of himself or herself ... lest the act of leadership create more harm than good.

If you could do better, should you?

I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate.

Mistakes happen. But after a while you've got to stop making them happen twice.

Nobody's perfect, but at the same time, I always try to learn from my mistakes.

Nobody is defeated until he starts blaming somebody else. My advice to you is don't fix the blame. Fix the problem.

I'm pretty good at taking accountability now, and I never did anything to deserve that. It was a really lousy thing for her to do.

I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

Do not go to bed until you have gone over the day three times in your mind. What wrong did I do? What good did I accomplish? What did I forget to do?

You need to accept responsibility for your mistakes. And I've done that.

I've always said, rather glibly, that the message of my career has been about individualism, about getting to know yourself and taking responsibility, not just for what you do, but what you think.

The three most difficult words to speak are, "I was wrong."

A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition.

It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete.

One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others.

To take responsibility for one's own actions, good and bad, is something else.

. . . denn da ist keine Stelle, die dich nicht sieht. Du musst dein Leben andern. (... for there is no place that does not see you. You must change your life.)

Blame is a neat little device that you can use whenever you don't want to take responsibility for something in your life. Use it and you will avoid all risks and impede your own growth.