Apology Quotes - Page 14

• When we apologize we end our struggle with history.

  John Kador

  Struggle, Apologizing, Ends

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.173, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Apology is both transactional, in that it restores what has been broken to what it was before, and transformational, in that it creates opportunities that didn't exist before.

  John Kador

  Opportunity, Broken, Has Beens

  John Kador (2010). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust (Large Print 16pt)”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When I accept an apology it means that the part in me that honors our relationship honors the part in you that honors our relationship.

  John Kador

  Mean, Honor, Our Relationship

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.156, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• "I would like to apologize" may sound like an apology, but it is no more an actual apology than saying "I would like to lose weight" makes you suddenly slimmer.

  John Kador

  Sound, Weight, May

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.200, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• You don't have to see eye-to-eye to walk hand-in-hand. You just have to want to go in the same direction.

  John Kador

  Eye, Hands, Want

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.157, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Apology may be scorned, but it retains its inherent value.

  John Kador

  May, Inherent, Scorned

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• Apologies have more power than most of us realize to restore strained relationships, free us from vengeful impulses, and create possibilities for growth.

  John Kador

  Growth, Realizing, Possibility

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.6, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• Apology is not for the faint of heart, but then, neither is life.

  John Kador

  Heart, Faint Of Heart

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.240, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"

  John Kador

  Answers

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.21, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• No apology is equal to the task set before it.

  John Kador

  Tasks, Equal

  John Kador (2009). “Effective Apology: Mending Fences, Building Bridges, and Restoring Trust”, p.18, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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• But a public oration is an escapade, a non-committal, an apology, a gag, and not a communication, not a speech, not a man.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Communication, Men, Speech

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1851). “Essays, lectures and orations”, p.71

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• Apology calls for a willingness to sacrifice on behalf of the wronged party and the inherent value of the relationship, not for what it brings to you but for what you can bring to it.

  John Kador

  Party, Sacrifice, Behalf

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• I was appointed U.S. attorney by President [George] Bush on September 10th, 2001, and the world changed enormously the next day, and that happened in my state.I will make no apologies, ever, for protecting the lives and the safety of the American people. We have to give more tools to our folks to be able to do that, not fewer, and then trust those people and oversee them to do it the right way.

  Chris Christie

  Next Day, People, Safety

  "Transcript of the 2015 GOP debate (9 pm)", www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

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• The PR industry loves the concept that if you just apologize, the problem goes away. The concept of apology is known in the Judeo-Christian sense: You apologize, but then you suffer. The problem is nobody wants the suffering. Everybody wants drive-through redemption.

  Eric Dezenhall

  Christian, Suffering, Redemption

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• You can't talk your way out of a situation you acted you way into.

  John Kador

  Way, Situation, Interpersonal Skills

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• An effective apology focuses more on compassion for the victim than redemption for the offender.

  John Kador

  Compassion, Redemption, Victim

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• I think I deserve an apology.

  Dana Perino

  Thinking, Deserve

  "Perino Demands Apology After Boxer Calls Out White House for Lying About Cheney’s Global Warming Editing" by Satyam Khanna, thinkprogress.org. July 10, 2008.

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• There's only one critic whose opinion I really value, in the final analysis: Johnny Carson. I have never needed any entourage standing around bolstering my ego. I'm secure. I know exactly who and what I am. I don't need to be told. I make no apologies for being the way I am.

  Johnny Carson

  Ego, Finals, Needs

  Source: www.alex-haley.com

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• 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

  Doors, Feminist, Leaving

  Patricia J. Williams (1997). “The Rooster's Egg”

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

  Ayrton Senna

  Men, Thinking, Throat

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• It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

  Lester Cole

  Men, Talking, Brain

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• I drew a vicious cartoon of an Islamic extremist as a dog, knowing full well what an insult that was is in the Islamic world. Furthermore, I added an apology to dogs everywhere (being a dog lover myself).

  Terry Mosher

  Dog, Islamic, Knowing

  Source: www.cbc.ca

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• Wearing makeup is an apology for our actual faces.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Makeup, Cosmetics, Faces

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• Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is the habitation of a virtuous soul, when the beauty of the face speaks out the modesty and humility of the mind, and the justness of the proportion raises our thoughts up to the heart and wisdom of the great Creator, something may be allowed it,--and something to the embellishments which set it off; and yet, when the whole apology is read, it will be found at last that beauty, like truth, never is so glorious as when it goes the plainest.

  Laurence Sterne

  Beauty, Humility, Heart

  Laurence Sterne (1823). “The Works of Laurence Sterne: With a Life of the Author”, p.241

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• I ... practiced all the arts of apology, evasion, and invisibility, to which procrastinators must sooner or later be reduced.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Art, Procrastination, Invisibility

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.388

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