Quotes About Amends

An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!

Fortuna wished to make amends. Somehow she had summoned and flushed Myrna minx from a subway tube, from some picket line, from the pungent bed of some Eurasian existentialist, from the hands of some epileptic Negro Buddhist, from the verbose midst of a group therapy session.

I'm not perfect, I make mistakes. And I hurt people. But when I say that I am sorry, I mean it.

Sometimes, sorry isn't enough when you screw up too much.

Life is too long. Your decisions are what which make your life beautiful or ugly. Make amends, forgive people and show some humanity.

Possessing a stronger quality of character leads the individual to accept responsibility more quickly, make amends in the best way possible and learn and grow from the mistakes in a better way.

I have learned that sometimes sorry is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.

We aren't perfect, nobody is, but if you want to make amends, don't make excuses, make apologies...

Take responsibility for the past, make amends, learn from it. But never wallow in the guilt.

I feel terrible. I'm not proud of what I did. You deserve better.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

We are citizens who love to fake life than dig deep into our reality to discover the truth and make amends and correct our own wrongdoings, because we are reluctant to learn from our past.

If you've mistreated someone, reach out and apologize to them. You won't have closure until you apologize for the wrong things you've done.

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.

Restitution: Find some way to make amends, at least partially.

Apology is where behavioral change begins.

The proof of true repentance is immediate restitution.

All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.

I am resolved on a career of reparation,' he said. 'And have you? Made amends?' 'It is one of the tragedies of life, that life keeps getting in the way of good intentions. I've made some. I'll make more.

I have held the hands of countless dying people from all sorts of backgrounds, and I do not think I have met a single person who didn't share the exact same aspirations at the end of life: to make amends for mistakes, to be close to loved ones, to tell one's story to someone who will listen, and to die free of pain.

But because I do not wish to be remembered (if I will be remembered) as a self-indulgent fantasist, I'll skip the purple patch for now, however much I wish to write it. I need to make amends for my indifference, for having turned my back on the world in favor of the beauties of the way. I'll try to study cruelty (I regret my own) and render it in more familiar terms.

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.