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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.'

— Lane Garrison

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

— Lincoln Steffens

Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

When you have parents who are a little out of their minds, somebody has to take responsibility.

— Shannon Woodward

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.

— Plutarch

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.

— Dale Turner

If a person is not willing to make a mistake, you're never going to do anything right.

— Sanford I. Weill

Parents don't make mistakes because they don't care, but because they care so deeply.

— T. Berry Brazelton

My dad has ingrained that in me: 'Be accountable.'

— Jon Lester

I've taken blame about being a bad father - if being a bad father is working your butt off trying to create a career at one time.

— Michael Douglas

✗Opposing Perspectives

The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.

— Theodore Roosevelt