Amends Quotes:

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

- Jayson Blair

topic: Making Amends, Situation, Amends

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

- Stan Getz

source: Source: blankonblank.org

topic: Done, Apologizing, Amends

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

topic: Sin, Virtue, Amends

Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 5, l. [52]

topic: Sin, Virtue, Amends

Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past—not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.

- Desmond Tutu

source: Report of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission foreword (1998)

topic: Eye, Past, Doors, Amends

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

topic: Life, Forgiveness, Time, Making Amends, Wrongdoing

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

- Dale E. Turner

topic: Mistake, Self Esteem, Errors, Making Amends, Infirmity

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

topic: Forgiveness, Hurt, Sorry, Wronged, I Am Sorry

As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

- Karen Hesse

topic: Children, Regret, Moving, Never Too Late, Amends

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

- Joan Didion

source: Joan Didion (2006). “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live: Collected Nonfiction”, Everyman's Library

topic: People, Nodding, Attractive, Magical Thinking, Amends

The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

- Gabrielle Bernstein

topic: Firsts, Clean, Ownership, Amends, Taking Ownership

Manifesting the blessings is not really anything that is complicated or even difficult. Clear out what is not serving you or no longer actively being utilized. Give and share joyously. Receive graciously. Make amends. Adorn yourself first with inner beauty so the outer beauty may benefit from your best intentions. Contribute more than you take. Make each place you find yourself better than you found it. Be an abundant source of good tidings to and from God. In short, let go and let God.

- John Morton

source: John Morton (2000). “The Blessings Already Are”, p.162, Mandeville Press

topic: Letting Go, Blessing, Giving, Outer Beauty, Let Go And Let God

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Sorry, Apology, Positivity, Time Away, Excuse You

Filmmaking materials are in the hands of more people now than ever before. I would like to think that the more people have these tools, the more people will learn how to use them, it's another argument I would argue for, personally, for art's education. Because there are kids who aren't that literate in screen language and they've got to know how people select shots, how people edit audio, how people combine things to make what they see on the screen. It would be like the 15th century or the 16th century in Germany, and somebody amends a printing press and you don't know how to read and write.

- Murray Horwitz

topic: Art, Writing, Kids, Amends

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

- Janis Joplin

topic: Porsche, Lord, Benz, Mercedes Benz, Making Amends

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

- Dalai Lama

topic: Inspirational, Life, Spiritual, My Mistakes, Heist

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

- William Shenstone

topic: Pain, Giving, Prejudice, Amends

Oh Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz.

- Janis Joplin

topic: Materialism, Lord, Benz, Mercedes Benz, Amends

On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Rolling, Way, Accounts, Wrongdoing, Amends

All human actions are motivated at their deepest level by two emotions--fear or love. In truth there are only two emotions--only two words in the language of the soul.... Fear wraps our bodies in clothing, love allows us to stand naked. Fear clings to and clutches all that we have, love gives all that we have away. Fear holds close, love holds dear. Fear grasps, love lets go. Fear rankles, love soothes. Fear attacks, love amends.

- Neale Donald Walsch

topic: Letting Go, Fear, Two, Amends, Clutch

Discord occasions a momentary distress to the ear, which remains unsatisfied, and even uneasy, until it hears something better. I am convinced...that provided the ear be at length made amends, there are few dissonances too strong for it. Disharmony, to paraphrase Bergson's statement about disorder, is simply a harmony to which many are unaccustomed.

- John Cage

topic: Music, Strong, Ears, Disharmony, Dissonance

I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

- Francis Bacon

source: 'The Elements of the Common Law' (1596) preface

topic: Men, Society, Debtors, Amends

nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them ...

- Jan Struther

source: Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

topic: Writing, Men, Suffering, Amends

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

topic: Spiritual, People, Fluffy, Making Amends, Amends

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

- Lynn Johnston

topic: Apology, I Am Sorry, Amends, Conflict Resolution, Saying Sorry

Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.

- Joel Beeke

topic: Pain, Loss, Joy, Amends

If I have done wrong to another person, the correct course of action is to apologize and make amends to that person and not blow it all off and hope that some God is going to forgive me and make it all go away. That sort of mentality is what allows people to not treat others in a way that is good.

- Matt Dillahunty

topic: Blow, People, Forgive Me, Amends

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

- Freya North

topic: Mistake, Way, Persons, Amends

Forgiveness does not mean that we have to continue to relate to those who have done us harm. In some cases the best practice may be to end our connection, to never speak to or be with a harmful person again. Sometimes in the process of forgiveness a person who hurts or betrayed us may wish to make amends, but even this does not require us to put ourselves in the way of further harm.

- Jack Kornfield

topic: Hurt, Mean, Practice, Best Practices, Amends

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

topic: Karma, Mean, Responsibility, Making Amends, Amends

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

- John J. McCloy

topic: Mistake, Humility, Self, Amends, Humility And Leadership

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Source: rayhemachandra.com

topic: Pain, Regret, Self, Deep Regret, Amends

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

- Allen Steele

source: Allen Steele (2002). “Coyote”, p.295, Penguin

topic: Stupid, Mistake, Such Is Life, Stupid Mistake, Amends

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

topic: Night, Thinking, Doors, Bad Night, Magical Thinking

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

- Charles Dickens

topic: Regret, Opportunity, Space, Carols, Amends

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

topic: Good Night, Dream, Liars, Mid Summer Nights Dream, Midsummer Night's Dream

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

topic: Way, Offensive, Habit, Making Amends, Amends

And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is more complicated, curdled, and primeval. Whose chief characteristic is that nothing can be done about it: too much time has passed, too much damage has been done, for amends to be made.

- Julian Barnes

topic: Feelings, Stronger, Guilt, Amends, Primeval

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

- William Penn

topic: Men, Suffering, Doing Good, Amends

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

- Edward Everett

topic: Glowing, Suffering, Toil, Making Amends, Amends

Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

- Bill Vaughan

topic: Air, Degrees, Ugly, Insensible, Amends

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

- Samuel Richardson

source: Samuel Richardson (1755). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments, maxims, cautions, and reflexions, contained in the histories of Pamela, Clarissa, and Sir Charles Grandison: Digested under proper heads, with references to the volume, ...”, p.159

topic: Marriage, Men, Thinking, Amends, Single Women

All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

- John Berridge

source: John Berridge (1838). “The works of the Rev. John Berridge ... with an enlarged memoir of his life: numerous letters, anecdotes ... and his original Sion's songs”, p.424

topic: Heart, Secret, Decay, Converses, Amends

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

- Tony Judt

source: Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.30, Penguin

topic: Generations, Wealth, Obsessed, Material Wealth, Amends

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

- Mark Helprin

topic: Loss, Balance, Want, Make Things Right, Amends

Tris," Tobias says, crouching next to me. His face is pale, almost yellow. There is too much I want to say. The first thing that comes out is, "Beatrice." He laughs weakly. "Beatrice," he amends, and touches his lips to mine. I curl my fingers into his shirt.

- Veronica Roth

topic: Yellow, Laughing, Next, Amends, Tris

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, from the Text of Johnson, Stevens and Reed. With Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius and Writings, by N. Rowe”, p.19

topic: Real, Desire, Way, Amends

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

- William Hazlitt

source: William Hazlitt (1859). “Table talk”, p.1

topic: Feelings, Youth, Eternity, Amends

Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.

- Sean Covey

source: Sean Covey (2011). “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teenagers”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

topic: Motivational, Mistake, Moving, Forgive Yourself, Learning From Our Mistakes

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

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

topic: God, Forgiveness, Religious, Making Amends, Amends