Friendship Apology Quotes

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

  Bryan Davis

  Im Sorry, Heart, Apology

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• Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.

  Lois Wyse

  Inspirational, Sorry, Women

  "The Rules According to Dee Dee Myers". Interview With Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, content.time.com. February 29, 2008.

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

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Im Sorry, Apology, Positivity

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

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Apology, Maturity

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 24, 2016

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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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• More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

  Greg LeMond

  Im Sorry, Apology, People

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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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• It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

  Stephen Covey

  Heart, Character, Apology

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

  Stephen Covey

  Inspirational, Heart, Character

  Stephen R. Covey (1994). “Daily Reflections for Highly Effective People: Living THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE Every Day”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

  William Blake

  Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing

  William Blake (2008). “The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake”, p.251, Univ of California Press

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

  Beth Revis

  Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sorry, Apology, Men

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• An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

  Steve Martin

  Im Sorry, Apology, Gentleman

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• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

  Plato

  Im Sorry, Apology, Men

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, Xist Publishing

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• 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

  Forgiveness, Sorry, Apology

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

  Leon Uris

  Sorry, Apology, Apologizing

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• I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology.

  Lisa Lutz

  Sorry, Apology, Apologizing

  Lisa Lutz (2010). “Revenge of the Spellmans: Document #3”, p.295, Simon and Schuster

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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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• 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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