Accepting Consequences Quotes

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

I don't like the blame game, though.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

We all make mistakes. In public life, we make them in public view.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

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

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

In the first rule of politics, you know, Harry Truman, the buck stops here. Take responsibility. What I've learned over the years is that people will give people in politics a lot of rope if they just take responsibility.

Sometimes you have to make decisions without knowing all that you would like to know That's part of the job.

Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid.

I have not always behaved well. I can admit that. I get things wrong, I learn.

Say what you know, do what you must, come what may.

If you make enough decisions in life, you’re bound to make some of them wrong.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Don't try to shift your responsibilities on to somebody else.

There's a lot of things I could've done better, and I regret not doing better. I do know I always gave it my best shot.

Failure is an awful thing, and when I look at the common denominator of failure, it seems to always be the same thing: excuses.

It's not the time to look for excuses.

When something goes wrong on the field, we expect our players to take the blame, step up, and proactively assume the blame for it, even if it's not their fault. That's the way to be a good teammate.

Just because I am a celebrity doesn't mean I can't say, 'Sorry.'

It was my decision, and I blew it, but I’m not about to say that I blew it.

The small companies who feel that the majors are a threat, or are predators, will use that as an excuse for their eventual downfall. Don't blame others for your own inadequacies.

You're not the only one who's made mistakes, but they're the only things that you can truly call your own.

I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there.