King Hussein Quotes

Excuses change nothing, but make everyone feel better.

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

So after a while, if people won't accept your excuses, you stop looking for them.

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.

I learned a long time ago that no one wants to hear excuses.

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

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

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

People tend to scare you pointing out your shortfalls. If you voluntarily admit your faults, then people won't have anything to point out.

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.

You have to talk about mistakes and then talk about what you have learned and how to move forward. You acknowledge missteps right away, you deal with them, and you move ahead.

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.

I grew up learning from a father who said, 'When you make a mistake or you make a bad decision, you man up and take responsibility.'

I don't want to repeat my mistakes.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

Learning to face reality, refusing refuge in cliches and lies, fighting to find a way out - that's what 'Rehab' is about.

There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you if you don't repeat it.

People never confess to failure. They should.

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 don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life.

I'm sick of running away from things.

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.