Quotes About Responsibility

Mistakes are almost always forgivable if you have the courage to admit them.

Choose your words and actions wisely. They can be forgiven, but not forgotten.

Forgiveness is something YOU choose to do, so why is it so hard to forgive someone when THEY think they did nothing wrong?

Saying sorry doesn't mean there isn't guilt & forgiving doesn't mean that the pain is gone.

Be careful with words...be because once they are said, they can only be forgiven...not forgotten.

It is not the errors of others, but our own miscalculations, on which we wreak our lasting vengeance. It is ourselves that we cannot forgive.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Men that have much business must have much pardon

They (the German companies) want to buy moral forgiveness but you don't buy moral forgiveness at bargain-basement prices.

Forgiveness does not absolve you from consequences,

I have visited many countries and I see it as very normal that when people clash (bump in to each other), it is normal that these people apologize, ... Now, we see that these planes come in to our country and they don't want to ask for forgiveness. Is that normal?

The time for forgiveness and overlooking and waiting is over because you just don't have those numbers of games left. We got to have people going out there now doing the job, not hoping they are doing it.

Who's going to feel sorry for him? You know they're illegal, whether it was two years ago or five years ago. You shouldn't do it. All you can do is ask for forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not the misguided act of condoning irresponsible, hurtful behavior. Nor is it a superficial turning of the other cheek that leaves us feeling victimized and martyred. Rather it is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past.

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

Do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

A man does not have to feel less than human to realize his sin; oppositely, he has to realize that he gets no special vindication for his sin.

Grownups are so tiresome. They fake their smiles all day long and they try to force us to do the same. It's no fun at all.