Lewis Grizzard Quotes

The public will forgive you almost anything if you're honest about it.

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

If you wanna cross somebody, then do that. Don't act like it wasn't you.

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

Not admitting a mistake is a bigger mistake.

I'm obviously going to own up that I cheated and I got caught.

I don't like to hide the errors I make. Any time I'm doing a mistake, I'm just saying it.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

I stand by all the misstatements that I've made.

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.

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

I believe that when you're wrong, own it and apologize, and so I do and put it on the equivalent of my front page.

I also feel that I have been very honest with my friends, my family and also with the public about the mistakes that I've made and the challenges that I've gone through.

A lot of times in sport if you try to tell the truth it seems like an excuse.

We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.

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.

And learn that when you do make a mistake, you'll surface that mistake so you can get it corrected, rather than trying to hide it and bury it, and it becomes a much bigger mistake, and maybe a fatal mistake.

You can’t get away from your votes. You can’t get away from your statements.

If I screw up, I'm gonna say, 'You know what? I really screwed up.' That's all you can do. Some people gonna forgive you, some people not gonna forgive you. That's just the way it works.

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

I will say this about the truth - that it's one of those crisis rules, whether you are a client or someone who's living their life just every day - is that the truth has a funny way of not going away, and telling the truth is extremely important in dealing with any problem or crisis.

We made mistakes publicly.

Be open about mistakes.