Quotes on Being 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.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

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

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

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.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

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

Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one word of what we have said about them needs to be unsaid. But it does want us to hate them in the same way in which we hate things in ourselves: being sorry that the man should have done such things, and hoping, if it is anyway possible, that somehow, sometime, somewhere he can be cured and made human again.

Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.