Apology, apology.....one of the hardest words in the English language. Here are a some great apology quotes. Also, consider reading my article, The Masterful Apology.
When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. ~Dan Heist
Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them. ~Author Unknown
Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson
In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence
True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
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
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann
An apology is a good way to have the last word. ~Author Unknown
An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~Lynn Johnston
The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach
Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That's why it's a comfort to go hand in hand. ~Emily Kimbrough
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? ~Stephen Levine
For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness. ~Author Unknown
Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese Proverb
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake
True friends stab you in the front. ~Oscar Wilde
Friendship isn't a big thing - it's a million little things. ~Author Unknown
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe
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.
G. K. Chesterton
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn
Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Kimberly Johnson
The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words
John Milton
For tips on how to make a beautiful apology, read here.
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Thursday, November 13, 2008
Forgiveness Quotes
Here are some of the best forgiveness quotes that I could find. True forgiveness is tough business. These quotes are great reminders of the importance of forgiveness.
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris
Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Abe Martin's Broadcast, 1930
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. ~Franklin P. Jones
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
~ Alexander Pope
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.
~ Unknown
A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
~ Unknown
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
~ Harriet Nelson
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
~ Robert Muller
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~ Paul Boese
To forgive and not to forget is like burying the hatchet with the handle sticking out.
~ Unknown
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
~ Cherie Carter-Scott
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
~ Louise Hay
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. - Ausonius
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? - Dolores Huerta
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. - John Sheffield
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. - Lawana Blackwell
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. Lawana Blackwell
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. Real Live Preacher
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. Real Live Preacher
No one forgives with more grace and love than a child. - Real Live Preacher
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. - Stuart's Law of Retroaction
Pray you now, forget and forgive. - William Shakespeare
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-- Mahatma Gandhi
Know all and you will pardon all. --Thomas A’Kempis
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies
--Voltaire
A mature Christian has capacity to absorb the offenses and weaknesses of others, not just demand they perform up to the code of ideals. --Stephen Crosby
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.—Unknown
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. --Cherie Carter-Scott
The offender never pardons. --George Herbert
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.--George Herbert
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.—Unknown
Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively. -- David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. --Hannah More
Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. --Doc Childre and Howard Martin
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me. --Sara Paddison
Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past. --Unknown
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. -Sholem Asch
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. --William A. Ward
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. --Lewis B. Smedes
We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore. –Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. --Jessamyn West
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
--Lord Chesterfield
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. --Logan Pearsall Smith
Forgiveness is . . . accepting God's sovereign use of people and situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your self love. --Martha Kilpatrick
Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen. --Martha Kilpatrick
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. --Anonymous
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
--Mark Twain
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?-- Abraham Lincoln
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. --Jean Paul Richter
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. --William Blake
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. --Antonio Porchia
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. --Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. --Mahatma Gandhi
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. --Ellen Goodman
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. --Robert Quillen
Forgiveness is the final form of love. --Reinhold Niebuhr
One forgives to the degree that one loves. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. --H. Jackson Brown
We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven. --Martha Kilpatrick
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. --George MacDonald
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare. - Lance Morrow
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes, "Forgiveness - The Power to Change the Past," Christianity Today, 7 January 1983 (Thanks, Donna)
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese
You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake, Jerusalem
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert
There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris
Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard, Abe Martin's Broadcast, 1930
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin
What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule. ~Lewis B. Smedes
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. ~Franklin P. Jones
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
~ Alexander Pope
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
~ Lewis B. Smedes
Holding resentment is like eating poison and waiting for the other person to keel over.
~ Unknown
A heart filled with anger has no room for love.
~ Unknown
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.
~ Harriet Nelson
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
~ Robert Muller
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
~ Paul Boese
To forgive and not to forget is like burying the hatchet with the handle sticking out.
~ Unknown
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
~ Cherie Carter-Scott
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
~ Gerald Jampolsky
We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.
~ Louise Hay
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
~ Leo Tolstoy
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. - Ausonius
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? - Dolores Huerta
To err is human; to forgive, infrequent. - Franklin P. Adams (1881 - 1960)
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. - John Sheffield
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. - Josh Billings
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. - Lawana Blackwell
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them. Lawana Blackwell
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. - Mahatma Gandhi
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. - Norman Cousins
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move. Real Live Preacher
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on. Real Live Preacher
No one forgives with more grace and love than a child. - Real Live Preacher
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. - Stuart's Law of Retroaction
Pray you now, forget and forgive. - William Shakespeare
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.-- Mahatma Gandhi
Know all and you will pardon all. --Thomas A’Kempis
We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies
--Voltaire
A mature Christian has capacity to absorb the offenses and weaknesses of others, not just demand they perform up to the code of ideals. --Stephen Crosby
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was you.—Unknown
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were. --Cherie Carter-Scott
The offender never pardons. --George Herbert
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.--George Herbert
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.—Unknown
Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively. -- David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
A Christian will find it cheaper to pardon than to resent. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, and the waste of spirit. --Hannah More
Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. --Doc Childre and Howard Martin
Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me. --Sara Paddison
Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past. --Unknown
Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence. -Sholem Asch
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. --William A. Ward
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well. --Lewis B. Smedes
We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore. –Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own. --Jessamyn West
Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.
--Lord Chesterfield
Don't tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. --Logan Pearsall Smith
Forgiveness is . . . accepting God's sovereign use of people and situations to strip you of self importance, and humiliate your self love. --Martha Kilpatrick
Without deep humility, true forgiveness is impossible…and will never happen. --Martha Kilpatrick
Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me. --Anonymous
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
--Mark Twain
Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?-- Abraham Lincoln
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. --Jean Paul Richter
The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness. --William Blake
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. --Antonio Porchia
Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. --Dag Hammarskjold
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love. --Mahatma Gandhi
We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck . . . But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. --Ellen Goodman
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers. --Robert Quillen
Forgiveness is the final form of love. --Reinhold Niebuhr
One forgives to the degree that one loves. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness. --H. Jackson Brown
We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven. --Martha Kilpatrick
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. --George MacDonald
Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business. Not to forgive is to yield oneself to another's control... to be locked into a sequence of act and response, of outrage and revenge, tit for tat, escalating always. The present is endlessly overwhelmed and devoured by the past. Forgiveness frees the forgiver. It extracts the forgiver from someone else's nightmare. - Lance Morrow
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