Saying I'm Sorry Quotes:

Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, ' I apologize.' Except at a funeral.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Im Sorry, Funeral, Apologizing, I Apologize, Saying I'm Sorry

True friends stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde

topic: Best Friend, Friendship, Funny Love, Stabbing, Inspirational Friendship

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

- Robin Williams

topic: Funny, Witty, Laughter, I Am Sorry, Being Sorry

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

- Benjamin Franklin

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

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

- Mignon McLaughlin

source: Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.59, BookBaby

topic: Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Regret, I Am Sorry, Saying Sorry

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

- Dalai Lama

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

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.

- Kurt Vonnegut

topic: Sorry, Mean, Need Love, Sorry For Him, Vasectomy

Chocolate says "I'm sorry" so much better than words.

- Rachel Vincent

topic: Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology, Saying Sorry, Saying I'm Sorry

Avant-garde means never having to say you're sorry.

- Marc Ribot

topic: Sorry, Mean, Avant Garde, Need Love, Sorry For Him

Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry.

- Larry Adler

source: Larry Adler, Philip Judge (1994). “Me and My Big Mouth”, Blake Pub

topic: Sorry, Mean, Vasectomy, Need Love, Sorry For Him

For the taxable investor, indexing means never having to say you're sorry.

- William J. Bernstein

topic: Sorry, Mean, Investing, Need Love, Sorry For Him

An apology might help, but you can change your life without one.

- Robin Quivers

topic: Sorry, Apology, Might, I Apologize, Friendship Apology

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

- Red Auerbach

topic: Basketball, Teamwork, Sorry, I Am Sorry, Saying Sorry

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

- Henry A. Kissinger

topic: Being Yourself, Motivation, Regret, Inspirations Being Yourself, Live Without Regrets

Real friends stab you in the front.

- Jonathan Davis

topic: Real, Real Friends, Stabbing, Backstabbing, Who Your Real Friends Are

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

- Douglas Horton

topic: Sorry, Selfish, Values, I Am Selfish, I Am Sorry

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

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

- Beth Revis

topic: Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology, Saying Sorry, I Apologize

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

- Kitty Kelley

topic: Hero, Apology, Admire, I Apologize, Being Sorry

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes: Or, The Insignificant Little Habits which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.58

topic: Relationship, Sympathy, Spiritual, Make You Cry, Someone Dying

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

- Bryan Davis

topic: Im Sorry, Heart, Apology, I Am Sorry, I Apologize

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

- Stephen King

topic: Girl, Sorry, Coffee, Kool Aid, I Am Sorry

Among the reasons people keep sad stories to themselves is that they do not want anyone to feel sorry for them.

- Judith Moore

source: Judith Moore (2005). “Fat Girl: A True Story”, p.156, Penguin

topic: Sorry, People, Feelings, Feeling Sorry, Sad Story

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

- Martin Luther

topic: Love, Marriage, Sorry, Husband To Be, Husband Wife

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.166, A&C Black

topic: Inspirational, Life, Strength, Just Stay Strong, Never Forgive

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

- William Blake

topic: Friendship, Forgiveness, Depressing, Stabbing, Making Friends

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

- Dale Carnegie

topic: Success, Sorry, Life And Love, Stop Feeling Sorry For Yourself, Feeling Sorry

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

- Stephen Levine

topic: Inspirational, Relationship, Inspiring, Back Together, Real Relationship

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

- E. W. Howe

topic: Forgiveness, Im Sorry, Apology, I Am Sorry, Saying Sorry

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

- Margaret Laurence

source: Margaret Laurence (2014). “A Bird in the House: Stories”, p.90, University of Chicago Press

topic: Sorry, Apology, House, Love Life And Family, I Am Sorry

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

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

topic: God, Sorry, Book, I Am Sorry, I Apologize

Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.

- Lil Wayne

topic: Sorry, Real, Inspiration, Feeling Sorry, Being Sorry

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

- Benjamin Disraeli

topic: Apology, Accounts, Friendship Apology, Being Sorry, Saying I'm Sorry

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

source: Archibald Alexander (1857). “Practical Truths”

topic: Heart, Apology, Evil, Pleading, I Am Sorry

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

topic: Hurt, Sorry, Mistake, I Am Sorry, Deeply Hurt

I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were.

- Sitting Bull

topic: Sorry, Native American, Intention, I Am Sorry, Saying Sorry

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

- Monica Lewinsky

topic: Sorry, I Am Sorry, Feeling Sorry, Am Sorry, Being Sorry

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

- Steve Martin

topic: Sorry, Apology, Gentleman, I Am Sorry, I Apologize

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

- Greg LeMond

topic: Im Sorry, Apology, People, I Am Sorry, I Apologize

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

- Thomas Szasz

source: The Second Sin (1973) "Personal Conduct"

topic: Life, Forgiveness, Letting Go, Inspirational Forgiveness, Naivety

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

- H. G. Wells

topic: Wise, Sorry, War, Sorry For Him, Not Sorry

Friends are God's apology for relations.

- Hugh Kingsmill

source: In Michael Holroyd Best of Hugh Kingsmill (1970) p. 12

topic: Friendship, Family, Sorry, Love Life And Family, I Am Sorry

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

- Henny Youngman

topic: Funny, Good Morning, Laughter, Funny Good Morning, Morning After

Never forget the nine most important words of any family- I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Beautiful, Forgiveness, Sorry, You Are Beautiful, Please Forgive Me

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

- Lois Wyse

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

topic: Inspirational, Sorry, Women, Women Equality, Women's Rights

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

- Tryon Edwards

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Inspiring, Bad Actions, I Am Sorry

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

- Stephen King

topic: Im Sorry, Sorrow, Emotion, Kool Aid, I Am Sorry

There's one sad truth in life I've found While journeying east and west - The only folks we really wound Are those we love the best. We flatter those we scarcely know, We please the fleeting guest, And deal full many a thoughtless blow To those who love us best.

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

topic: Relationship, Smile, Im Sorry, Inspirational Relationship, Inspiring Friends