Quotes About Apology

You should stop beating yourself up over the past. If you feel you've wronged someone, apologize and move on.

But an apology too — you think you're giving something, but you're not. You're really asking for something. You're asking for forgiveness, you're asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

She doesn't bother to tell him that he should not be sorry, that he is not responsible for any of those things. She doesn't bother because they are both chronic apologizers, and chronic apologizers know that sorry is also just sorrow for the general state of the world.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, you can pile on as many as you want, but the guilt is still there, like that pea under all those mattresses.

If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character.

Will the kindness of this letter excuse the shortness of it?

Of course I apologized, but I couldn't shake the sense that I was truly an asshole.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families.

Please forgive me for being impertinent and ungrateful. I was badly brought up.

can tell she didn't swallow any. "I'm sorry, it's too risky," Meredith says. "It's not fair to

Aunt Claire, I apologize to you too, since you probably had to pretend you weren't my aunt." "Apology accepted." Aunt Claire smiled, which did much to lighten Skye's heart. "I must say your mad charge at Melissa was impressive. Perhaps you should switch to ice hockey or professional wrestling." "Claire, please be serious," said Mr. Penderwick. "I am being serious.

I'm very sorry for the inconvenience." And he shot the concierge once between astonished eyes.

Rodrick's punishment was that he had to answer a bunch of questions Mom wrote out for him. Did owning this magazine make you a better person? No. Did it make you more popular at school? No. How do you feel about having owned this type of magazine now? I feel ashamed. Do you have anything you want to say to women for having owned this offensive magazine? I'm sorry women.

Do you want me to apologize after every joke? If it doesn't offend somebody it's probably not a joke. It's probably an observation that's not funny. It's gotta offend somebody somewhere.

I apologize from distracting you from reading my books.

The important thing is to keep trying. And to apologize when you need to.

if I am faithfully and regularly acknowledging my sin to God, it's much easier to apologize to my husband because I'm already in the habit of saying "I'm sorry" to God.

I have far more enthusiasm in life than I have actual energy. In my excitement, I routinely take on more that I can physically or emotionally handle, which causes me to break down in quite predictable displays of dramatic exhaustion. You will be the one burdened with the job of mopping me up every time I've overextended myself and then fallen apart. This will be unbelievably tedious. I apologize in advance.

Of course you are. I'm sorry for many of the things I've done, too. Everyone is sorry. It's good to be sorry—but don't make a fetish of it.

Everyone is sorry. It's good to be sorry—but don't make a fetish of it.