Avoid things that will require an apology. — Arabic Proverbs
Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better? — Randy Pausch
Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry. — Charles Osgood
Saying sorry doesn't solve the problem. It's what you do after that truly counts — Drake
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. — Lynn Johnston
Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real. — Lil Wayne
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. — Tryon Edwards
You can always say sorry but the real apology is when you hear the sadness in their voice and see the look in their eyes. And you realize that they have hurt themselves just as much. — Kid Cudi
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. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Some times I need to apologize, sometimes I need to admit that I ain't right, sometimes I should just keep my mouth shut, or only say hello, sometimes I still feel I'm walking alone. — Billie Joe Armstrong
If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize. — Muhammad Ali
True beauty is knowing who you are and what you want and never apologizing for it. — Pink
You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either — Gene Stallings
Never apologize for being nerdy, because un-nerdy people never apologize for being assholes. — John Barrowman
Apologizing Image Quotes
Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.
Stop Apologizing Quotes
Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology. — Nouman Ali Khan
We may yet live to see the day when women will be no longer news! And it cannot come too soon. I want to be a peaceful, happy, normal human being, pursuing my unimpeded way through life, never having to stop to explain, defend or apologize for my sex. — Nellie L. McClung
one thing I don’t need
is any more apologies
i got sorry greetin me at my front door
you can keep yrs
i don’t know what to do wit em
they don’t open doors
or bring the sun back
they don’t make me happy
or get a mornin paper
didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars
cuz a sorry. — Ntozake Shange
I really believe it's time for some of us to stop apologizing for God and start apologizing to Him for being embarrassed by the ways He has chosen to reveal Himself — Francis Chan
In a fight almost anything goes. It almost reaches the point where you stop to apologize if a chance blow lands above the belt. — Saul Alinsky
You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again. — David Morse
It's true that over-apologizing interrupts the flow of conversation and irritates the person who has to stop and offer reassurance, like, "No, it's fine, don't worry about it." But far greater than the challenge of toning down unnecessary "sorrys" is offering an apology when one is due. — Harriet Lerner
And when someone apologizes to you enough times for things they'll never stop doing, I think it's FEARLESS to stop believing them. It's FEARLESS to say "you're NOT sorry" and walk away. — Taylor Swift
We need to stop apologizing for celebrating life. We need to stop apologizing for wanting to protect an individual's right to build a business. — Rick Perry
Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary. — Robert Fulghum
Not Apologizing Quotes
In those early centuries of Christianity,
Christianity did not go into the world apologizing. It went to slay the powers
of darkness and undo the works of the devil, and it lived in holy triumph. — John G. Lake
If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good. — Matt Dillahunty
Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots. — Elizabeth Gilbert
I am very conscious that I am not wise at all. — Socrates
The things two people do to each other they remember. If they stay together, it's not because they forget; it's because they forgive. — Demi Moore
I will not yield to any man contrary to what is right, for fear of death, even if I should die at once for not yielding. — Socrates
I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance. — David Kay
Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It's the third part that people tend to forget. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself. — Randy Pausch
Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it. — Paramahansa Yogananda
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody. — Leonora Carrington
Done Apologizing Quotes
What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology. — William Gaddis
Simply see that you are at the center of the universe, and accept all things and beings as parts of your infinite body. When you perceive that an act done to another is done to yourself, you have understood the great truth. — Lao Tzu
Don't apologize for who you are and what you've done in the past. Be who you are and do what you do. — Billy Graham
I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault. — Ken Burns
The etiquette business has its emergencies, heaven knows, but it is in the nature of etiquette emergencies that once one realizes what one has done, it is too late. One might as well get a good night's sleep and send flowers with an apology in the morning. — Judith Martin
I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - "Yes; the little ones does". — Mark Twain
Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl. — Nellie Mcclung
I'm apologetic when I feel like I've made a mistake. And when I have done a disservice to myself or someone else. But I don't feel a need to apologize for doing or saying something that I think needs to be said, just because it may not sit comfortably with somebody else. — Susan Rice
We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it. — Ben Nelson
There are people that have watched everything I've done, which is so sweet. Sometimes I'm grateful for that; sometimes I feel like I have to apologize. — Justin Hartley
Over Apologizing Quotes
Now this is over thirty years later and the guy said he was that cab driver. He apologized and he was serious. I felt awful. He might have been spending his whole life thinking he had jinxed me, but I told him he hadn't. My number was up. — Joe Dimaggio
I want to apologize for plaguing you with so many telephone calls last November and December. When the 'enthusiasm' is coming on me it is accompanied by a feverish reaching out to my friends. After its over I wince and wither. — Robert Lowell
Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology. — Patricia J. Williams
And you would accept the seasons of your heart just as you have always accepted that seasons pass over your fields and you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief. — Kahlil Gibran
When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly. — Dorothy Parker
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. — Mignon McLaughlin
I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsake his generous companions without apology. — Henry David Thoreau
It's great that I don't have to apologize about being over 26. — Swoosie Kurtz
My own family and thousands of other Japanese Americans were interned during World War II. It took our nation over 40 years to apologize — Michael M. Honda
I be yellin out money over everything, money on my mind then she wanna ask when it got so empty. Tell her I apologize, happened over time. They say they miss the old Drake, girl don't tempt me — Drake
You Keep Apologizing Quotes
I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that. — LisaRaye McCoy-Misick
Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow. — Kelsey Grammer
All I'm saying is that sooner of later, you'll have to come to terms with yourself. You can't wish away the vampire in you, and you shouldn't keep atoning for it. You should figure out who you are and what you need, and then don't apologize for it. Not to me, to your mum, or to anyone. — Jeaniene Frost
I did learn something interesting [while at the Atlanta airport]. You have to be a member of the TSA in order to legally perform a cavity search. My apologies to the staff of Cinnabon, but you guys should really keep that extra frosting where the customers can find it. — Stephen Colbert
You're a leader. It's your job to keep your passion hot. Do whatever you have to do, read whatever you have to read, go wherever you have to go to stay fired up. And don't apologize to anybody. — Bill Hybels
Romantic Apologizing Quotes
Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry. — Larry Adler
Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry. — Marc Ribot
For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry. — William J. Bernstein
Being an American means never having to say you're sorry. — Kurt Vonnegut
I Apologize Quotes
I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives. — Dr. Dre
Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. — Henry A Kissinger
I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living. — John Wayne
Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. — Clark Moustakas
I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences. — Justin Trudeau
I don't apologize for anything. When I make a mistake, I take the blame and go on from there. I just despise to lose, and that has taken a man of mediocre ability and made a pretty good coach out of him. — Woody Hayes
There is nothing wrong with loving the crap out of everything. Negative people find their walls. So never apologize for your enthusiasm. Never. Ever. Never. — Ryan Adams
Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world? — Jim Bakker
To my fellow creators, wholeheartedly, I am sorry I brought shame upon the platform. I promise I will do the community well and keep on trucking and bring light to YouTube. — Logan Paul
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often. — Farley Mowat
Friendship Apology Quotes
The capacity for friendship is God's way of apologizing for our families. — Jay McInerney
Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless. — Bryan Davis
It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. — Stephen Covey
The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features. — Leon Uris
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter. — Benjamin Disraeli
No man is the whole of himself; his friends are the rest of him. — Harry Emerson Fosdick
I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology. — Lisa Lutz
I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language. — Beth Revis
I want to use my connections with coaches, players, celebrities, whomever, and if I can take that friendship and use it to help someone else, I'm going to take advantage of that. I'm not going to apologize for that. — Tim Tebow
Apology Quotes
You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. — Cara Delevingne
Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children. How many must die before our voices are heard, how many must be tortured, dislocated, starved, maddened? When, at what point, will you say no to this war? — Daniel Berrigan
You will always be too much of something for someone: too big, too loud, too soft, too edgy. If you round out your edges, you lose your edge. Apologize for mistakes. Apologize for unintentionally hurting someone - profusely. But don't apologize for being who you are. — Danielle LaPorte
As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate. — J. D. Hayworth
Grudges are a waste of perfect happiness. Laugh when you can. Apologize when you should and let go of what you can't change. — Drake
The moment will arrive when you are comfortable with who you are, and what you are- bald or old or fat or poor, successful or struggling- when you don't feel the need to apologize for anything or to deny anything. To be comfortable in your own skin is the beginning of strength. — Charles Handy
Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better. — Lewis Howes
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southerner apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. — Jefferson Davis
The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are. — Debbie Ford
Never think you need to apologize for asking someone to give to a worthy cause, any more than as though you were giving him or her an opportunity to participate in a high-grade investment. The duty of giving is as much his or hers as is the duty of asking yours. — John D. Rockefeller
Saying Sorry Quotes
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all. — Clarissa Pinkola Estes
I am sorry that so often the biggest obstacle to God has been Christians. Christians who have had so much to say with our mouths and so little to show with our lives. I am sorry that so often we have forgotten the Christ of our Christianity. — Shane Claiborne
Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry. — Robert H. Schuller
I don't care if you want to hunt, I don't care if you think it's your right. I say, sorry, you are not allowed to own a gun, and if you do own a gun I think you should go to prison. — Rosie O'Donnell
No relationship would be successful without a little compromise. If you can't learn to do that then I'm sorry to say your relationship will never survive. Love is about giving and taking, it's not just about smiles and kind words. Compromise is key. — Glennon Melton
I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours. — John F. Kennedy
Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart — Marilyn Monroe
I would refuse to go to a homophobic heaven. No, I would say sorry, I mean I would much rather go to the other place. — Desmond Tutu
I've always loved independent women, outspoken women, eccentric women, funny women, flawed women. When someone says about a woman, 'I'm sorry, that's just wrong,' I tend to think she must be doing something right. — Diane Keaton
Nothing fills me with deeper sadness than to see a Southern man apologizing for the defense we made of our inheritance. Our cause was so just, so sacred, that had I known all that has come to pass, had I known what was to be inflicted upon me, all that my country was to suffer, all that our posterity was to endure, I would do it all over again. — Jefferson Davis
Many people, especially ignorant people, want to punish you for speaking the truth, for being correct, for being you. Never apologize for being correct, or for being years ahead of your time. If you’re right and you know it, speak your mind. Speak your mind. Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is still the truth. — Mahatma Gandhi
I'll never forget a Podcast I did with Dr Joseph Mercola when my bestseller, 'The Plant Paradox' had just come out. He was wild about the book, and apologized that he had never heard of me before the book. He asked what I had been doing for so many years. I replied that I was merely following the Buddha's advice to 'chop wood and carry water.' — Steven Gundry
We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us. — Joan Rivers
You're my backbone. You're a blessing. You're a piece of my heart. You're the air I breathe. And you're the strongest person I know, and I'm so sorry for having to put you through this and having to put our family through this. — Kobe Bryant
Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families — Tennessee Williams
Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game. — Matt Taibbi
Dream as big as you want to, and never apologize for it. — MrBeast
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