Quotes About Amends

If you brought harm, no matter the reason, you had to set it right as best you could.

As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

Now it's not just my lip you'll be needing to kiss if you're wishing to make amends with me, Irish.

Apologizing is like spring cleaning.

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

A man didn't make mistakes. He made choices. Bad once stayed with him for a long time, but with a little luck and a lot of hard work, hopefully not forever. With planning and diligence, he could make amends.

In this way I make amends for the lack of a positive act by the clear knowledge of my incompetence. A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. They then dwell in the house next door, and at any moment a flame may dart out and set fire to his own house. Whenever we give up, leave behind, and forget too much, there is always the danger that the things we have neglected will return with added force.

There's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

The great gift of eyesight Is to spy stars at night– In dozens–or thousands– While our hearts make amends For wrongs we wrought today When, blind, we looked away From light and stumbled through Mazes, crooked, narrow.

Canada, Australia and New Zealand have apologised for their treatment of native peoples.

I also believe that forgiveness is appropriate only when parents do something to earn it. Toxic parents, especially the more abusive ones, need to acknowledge what happened, take responsibility, and show a willingness to make amends. If you unilaterally absolve parents who continue to treat you badly, who deny much of your reality and feelings, and who continue to project blame onto you, you may seriously impede the emotional work you need to do.

I am immensely contrite. And I'm sorry for the damage I've done.

A great thing of getting older is coming to terms and saying sorry and trying to repair damage that happened in the past.

I am sorry for what has happened and I know that I need some help.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

Making amends is not only saying the words but also being willing to listen to how your behavior caused another's pain, and then the really hard part…changing behavior.

Thus, I can recognize that I have been unfair and hurtful to my child (or my spouse or my friend) and need to make amends. But I don't want to admit I made a mistake, so I procrastinate, claiming that I am still "thinking" about the situation. This is the opposite of living consciously. At a fundamental level, it is an avoidance of consciousness—avoidance of the meaning of what I am doing; avoidance of my motives; avoidance of my continuing cruelty.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

How could she make amends without knowing for what? She guessed she would never know, unless he chose to talk to her. She wanted to reach out to him and try to settle the matter, but it was difficult right now with them so far apart.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Apology - a desperate habit, and one that is rarely cured.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.