Apology Quotes and Sayings

Posted by Brian

Apologizing – a very desperate habit – one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see.

‘It is destiny’ phrase of the weak human heart! ‘It is destiny’ dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

When a man holds you round the throat, I don’t think he has come to apologise.

The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again. ~Evelyn Underhill

No sensible person ever made an apology.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

Never apologize and never explain – it’s a sign of weakness.

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

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

I don’t ask for an apology because it’s only tomorrow’s fish-and-chip paper.

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

The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

Friends are God’s apology for relations.

It is best and easiest not to discredit others but to prepare oneself to be as good as possible.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.


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