A Quote by Woodrow Wilson

If the colored people made a mistake in voting for me, they ought to correct it.

Woodrow Wilson

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Woodrow Wilson
American - President
December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924

It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

Mahatma Gandhi

If one has made a mistake, and fails to correct it, one has made a greater mistake.

Plato

When you've made a mistake, you have to admit you've made a mistake, and correct it.

Emily Thornberry

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

DeForest Soaries

A mistake I've made is I have not worried sufficiently about the art world, really. I have not concerned myself with the other people in the art world. I've been a little too singular, and that's a mistake I've made. But everybody makes a mistake of some kind, and if that's my only mistake, I'm happy.

Peter Saul

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

Mary Parker Follett

I'm only twenty-five. If I've made a mistake I have time to correct it.

W. Somerset Maugham

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Dalai Lama

I think it takes a lot for you to admit you made a mistake and correct it right away, especially on live television.

Pia Wurtzbach

Being classically trained gave me the real foundation for music. It's so important in my life. Why was I influenced by all these styles of music? Because it gave me a sense of freedom. It made me feel like I could put my hand in a colored bag and pull out a different colored candy and have fun with it.

Lara Fabian

The biggest mistake, in general, I've made, is to put too much of a weighting on someone's talent and not enough on their personality. And I've made that mistake several times. I think it actually matters whether somebody has a good heart, it really does. I've made the mistake of thinking that it's sometimes just about the brain.

Elon Musk

Last time I was down South I walked into this restaurant, and this white waitress came up to me and said: 'We don't serve colored people here.' "I said: 'that's all right, I don't eat colored people. Bring me a whole fried chicken.

Dick Gregory

In some ways, getting away from the headquarters and having a little time to reflect allows you to find errors in your strategy. You get to rethink things. Often, that helps me correct a mistake that I made or someone else is about to make.