Making Amends Quotes

• True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

  Lawana Blackwell

  Mean, Repentance, Persons

  Lawana Blackwell (2008). “The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark (The Gresham Chronicles Book #3)”, p.437, Baker Books

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• It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

  Dale E. Turner

  Mistake, Self Esteem, Errors

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• Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.

  Marianne Williamson

  Karma, Mean, Responsibility

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 03, 2011

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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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• The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  God, Forgiveness, Religious

  FULTON J. SHEEN (1955). “WAY TO HAPPY LIVING”

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• That's a spiritual lifestyle, being willing to admit that you don't know everything and that you were wrong about some things. It's about making a list of all the people you've harmed, either emotionally or physically or financially, and going back and making amends. That's a spiritual lifestyle. It's not a fluffy ethereal concept.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Spiritual, People, Fluffy

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• If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Tasks, Addresses

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

  Steve Carell

  Thinking, Order, Faults

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• Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

  Aldous Huxley

  Life, Forgiveness, Time

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• If you want to amend your errors, you must begin by amending your philosophy.

  Jim Rohn

  Philosophy, Errors, Want

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Mar 24, 2017

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• I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

  Jayson Blair

  Situation, Amends, Seeking

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• actions speak louder than words

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

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• Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

  Janis Joplin

  Porsche, Lord, Benz

  "Mercedes-Benz" (song) (1970)

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• Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

  George Eliot

  Way, Offensive, Habit

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.57

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• I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

  Joan Didion

  Night, Thinking, Doors

  FaceBook post by Joan Didion from Aug 28, 2016

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• Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

  Edward Everett

  Glowing, Suffering, Toil

  Svend Petersen, Edward Everett (1963). “The Gettysburg addresses: the story of two orations”

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• Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

  George Eliot

  Life, Real, Too Late

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.546, ShandonPress via PublishDrive

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