Apology Quotes

Apologizing does not always mean you're wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

~ Mark Matthews

But when someone does wrong, when we make mistakes, we don’t say we’re sorry. We promise to make amends.”“I will.”“Mati en sheva yelu. This action will have no echo. It means we won’t repeat the same mistakes, that we won’t continue to do harm.

~ Leigh Bardugo

When you have a chance to forgive, think of all you'll gain and forget all you've lost.

~ Saim .A. Cheeda

I no longer look to my abusers with any expectation– of remorse, or apology or restitution or restoration or relationship. I’m at peace, accepting that they won’t and can’t help me out of the mess they created. But, I’m the best qualified for that job anyway and I’m happy with the job I’m doing.

~ Christina Enevoldsen

Sometimes, an apology sets free a part of you that you didn't even realize was caged...and forgiveness destroys the cage.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I'm sorry, you free two souls.

~ Donald L. Hicks

Never give a person a piece of your mind when all you really wanted to do was give them a piece of your heart.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question...so break 'yo'self'!

~ T.f. Hodge

One of the greatest ever statement that can keep you at peace with others is that I am right, but I may be wrong! Yes, we know you are right but you may be wrong!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Apology is not about saying I'm sorry, but it is about the meaning you put behind the apology and admitting that you are the wrong part.

~ Unarine Ramaru

A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

One who is truly confident is able to apologize.

~ Olivia Tsoutsoplides

4.04 APOLOGYA second insult be just a stiff apology,As the first be when hurt was the party;Damages for aggrieved no medicine be,But healing from hurt - the desire only.[38] - 4

~ Munindra Misra

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

~ Benjamin Franklin

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

~ Robert Brault

He understood (what so many fautlessly polite people do not understand) that a stiff apology is a second insult. He understood that the injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged, he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

~ G.k. Chesterton

An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.

~ Gary Hopkins

Your right actions might hurt someone, so if required apologize for your right actions, but don't stop taking right actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

Ego said, 'I will not apologize for who I am'. Experience replied, 'unless your self-realization comes to light, your apology is worthless. And, when your self-realization does come to light, which it will, your apology will be of little or no value at all'. - Sandeep N. Tripathi

~ Sandeep N. Tripathi

I’m sorry.’ The two most inadequate words in the English language.

~ Beth Revis

The one thing you should never do to a woman, whether you make love to her or fuck her, is apologise straight after.

~ Dianna Hardy

Make sure that your heartfelt thanksgiving is more consistent than your nagging needs and your passionate apology fervent than your unhealthy justifications. Be clean and hopeful.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Apologize!That's the least you can do to try to make right something you have wronged.

~ Sanhita Baruah

Never believe you're so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Don't apologize.I wasn't-Not in words, but it was clear from your tone. Apology suggests that you are keeping me from doing what I need to do, which implies I am somehow powerless to do otherwise. It's a choice, Olivia.

~ Kelley Armstrong

I can’t apologize for who I am any more. Even better, I have no desire to.

~ Scott Stabile

The hero isn’t the one who is right, but the one who steps forward to take the blame—deserved or not—and apologize to save a relationship.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Just say “I’m sorry.” It’s not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. The phrase is simple and short, easy to articulate. And the last time I checked, it sounded just as good—if not better—in a whisper. So just say it; say “I’m sorry.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I’m sorry. Oh, what simple words are these!I’m sorry. Lips should breathe them out with ease!But nay, in barring up the way,“I’ll die first” are the words you say.I’m sorry, woe is all pride guarantees.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Saying 'I'm sorry' is saying 'I love you' with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

A truly humble apology works to part storm clouds, calm rough seas, and bring on the soft lights of dawn; it has the power to change a person's world.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Who cares who's right or wrong when the last word is a kind apology?

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

~ Bryan Davis

A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy.

~ Beverly Engel

He did not speak; merely looked at her with an expression she had seen traces of before but never fully understood until that moment. It was more apology than accusation---a dark stare of acknowledgment that told her he had long since seen his own fate in her actions, and had long since ceased to hold her responsible.

~ Anne Fortier

Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.

~ David Shrigley

Never apologize for correct actions.

~ R.j. Lawrence

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.

~ Jhumpa Lahiri

Mr. Upchurch,” she fumbled. “I . . . I must take my leave directly. But before I go, allow me to say how sorry I am for the callous way I treated you in the past. I regret it most keenly.” His heart squeezed even as he felt his brows rise. “Do you?” She swallowed. “I was wrong about you. I was wrong about a great many things.

~ Julie Klassen

Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.

~ Danielle Ofri