Quotes about Apology
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
- Jim Rohn
One of the worst ways is the non-apology apology, which sounds like an apology but doesn't really accept any blame. For example, "We're sorry if this upset you." Or "I'm sorry that you don't feel we lived up to your expectations." Whatever.
- Jason Fried
Like apples of gold in a silver setting is a word that is aptly spoken. It is a golden ring, an ornament of finest gold, such is a wise apology to an attentive ear." —Proverbs 25:11—12
- Fr. Richard Rohr
if I am faithfully and regularly acknowledging my sin to God, it's much easier to apologize to my husband because I'm already in the habit of saying "I'm sorry" to God.
- Elizabeth George
Team members need to be able to admit their weaknesses and mistakes, to acknowledge the strengths of others, and to apologize when they do something wrong.
- Patrick Lencioni
Nothing heals the soul like chocolate," she said. "I just love chocolate. It's God's apology for broccoli.
- Richard Paul Evans
I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now.
- Richard Paul Evans
Love is full of pain and mistakes. That's what makes it interesting and that's why we explore relationships in literature. That whole 'love is never having to say you're sorry' crap is just that, crap. Love is learning how to say you're sorry.
- Richard Paul Evans
Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
I've become a master of the apology.
- Letitia Baldrige
Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.
- AA Milne
I give you full credit for the discovery, I crawl, I grovel, my name is Watson, and you need not say what you were just going to say, because I admit it all.
- Dorothy Sayers