Find the best apology quotes to use for various occasions.
- Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
- Benjamin Franklin - Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.
- Sarah Ockler - Never forget the nine most important words of any family-
I love you.
You are beautiful.
Please forgive me.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr. - In this life, when you deny someone an apology, you will remember it at time you beg forgiveness.
- Toba Beta - It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.
- Michael Chabon - I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.
- Louie Anderson - Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.
- Rachel Vincent - If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.
- Amit Kalantri - An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!
- Lynn Johnston - 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 - Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
- Tryon Edwards - A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
- Randy Pausch - When I say, 'I'm sorry,' it's because I regret something.
- Luis Suarez - I am sorry for what has happened and I know that I need some help.
- Susan Smith - It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake - When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.
- Dalai Lama - The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz - Never apologize when you are right unless it is to your wife.
- Byron Pulsifer - More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.
- Greg LeMond - 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 - In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.
- Margaret Laurence - I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.
- Marion Jones - 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 - The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.
- Leon Uris - I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology.
- Lisa Lutz - When an apology is due, give it freely, then follow your apology with action.
- Judy Ford - Saying sorry to someone is hard… but putting your pride down for someone is the hardest.
- - Cristina Orante - 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 - 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 - It is polite to apologize, but it is more polite not to do anything calling for an apology.
- Vikrant Parsai - The best way to have the last word is to apologize.
- Joyce Meyer - Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.
- Kathie Lee Gifford - When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.
- Dan Heist