Apology Quotes

Every relationship has tough days. Don't let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.

I was a snowboard instructor, I was a bouncer in a nightclub, I was a whitewater river guide for many years. I worked as a teacher. I make no apologies for a very varied set of life experiences.

As in any war, there have been dreadful mistakes and civilian casualties. The difference is when Israelis kill innocents they apologize; when Hezbollah kills innocents they celebrate.

Thank God for such women, who make no apologies for their oceanic depth and riptides of emotion.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

The greatest act of courage is to be and to ownall of who you are - without apology, without excuses, without masks to cover the truth of who you are.

The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.

You don't have to flaunt your success, but you don't have to apologize for it, either

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

You're my backbone. You're a blessing. You're a piece of my heart. You're the air I breathe. And you're the strongest person I know, and I'm so sorry for having to put you through this and having to put our family through this.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest. Livy Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies

I live my life as I deem appropriate and fitting; I offer no apologies, no explanations.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

At its heart, the quest that trans people are on is to have the same thing that straight — and gay — people have: the ability to wake up in the morning and be ourselves, without permission, without apology. Our lives should not be defined by wigs, or surgery, or which bathroom we use. Our lives should be defined by our identities, and the truth we bear in our hearts.

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

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

What's any artist, but the dregs of his work? the human shambles that follows it around. What's left of the man when the work's done but a shambles of apology.

From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology.

Much of human progress has been in defiance of religion or of the apparent natural order. The defiance of religious and secular authority has led to democracy, human rights, and the protection of the environment. Humanists make no apologies for this. Humanists twist no biblical doctrine to justify such actions.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

We make no apologies for setting high standards.

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

A moment of consideration often prevents a thousand apologies

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

Eat less than you think you want, eat with your intelligence, not your stomach. Never get up from the table with an inward, silent apology for being a pig.

When something feels real, you don’t make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

A rule that may serve for a statesman, a courtier, or a lovernever make a defence or an apology before you be accused.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

We owe the animals our profoundest apologies. Defenseless and unable to retaliate, they have suffered immense agonies under our domination that most of us have never witnessed or acknowledged. Now knowing better, we can act better, and acting better, we can live better, and give the animals, our children, and ourselves a true reason for hope and celebration.

You are not made of metaphors, Not apologies, not excuses.