Saying Im Sorry Quotes

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

Beth Revis

Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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

Bryan Davis

Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

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If people are good because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein

Im Sorry, Atheist, Fear

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A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

Kitty Kelley

Sports, Sorry, Hero

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Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Benjamin Disraeli

Im Sorry, Apology, Apologizing

Benjamin Disraeli, Edmund Gosse, Robert Arnot (1904). “The works of Benjamin Disraeli, earl of Beaconsfield: embracing novels, romances, plays, poems, biography, short stories and great speeches”

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It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

Archibald Alexander

Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

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

Tryon Edwards

Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring

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I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

Anthony Weiner

Im Sorry, Hurt, Mistake

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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

Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Hurt

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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Samuel Butler

Funny, God, Im Sorry

Notebooks ch. 14 (1912)

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The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Red Auerbach

Basketball, Teamwork, Im Sorry

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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

Inspirational, Im Sorry, Being Yourself

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

Lynn Johnston

Im Sorry, Apology, I Am Sorry

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When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Dalai Lama

Inspirational, Life, Karma

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Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

Douglas Horton

Im Sorry, Selfish, I Am Sorry

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

Mignon McLaughlin

Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Regret

Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

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Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Benjamin Franklin

Im Sorry, Apology, Positivity

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

Margaret Laurence

Funny, Family, Sarcastic

Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

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I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

Robin Williams

Funny, Witty, Laughter

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True friends stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love

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You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

E. W. Howe

Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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Real friends stab you in the front.

Jonathan Davis

Friendship, Im Sorry, True Friend

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

Robin Quivers

Im Sorry, Apology, Might

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

Inspirational, Life, Strength

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

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Friends are God's apology for relations.

Hugh Kingsmill

Friendship, Family, Im Sorry

In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12

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