45 Apology Quotes to Help You Say Sorry with Meaning

1. "Each day, we have the opportunity to learn something new, apologize for our mistakes, and become better." - Lewis Howes

2. "One of the values of a human being is to be honest and admit at times knowing when to apologize." - Pepe

3. "Sorry doesn’t prove anything unless you mean it." - Ashley Sexton

4. "Never ruin an apology with an excuse." - Benjamin Franklin

5. "Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth." - John Kador

6. "When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it." - Dalai Lama

7. "You can always say sorry but the real apology is when you hear the sadness in their voice and see the look in their eyes. And you realize that they have hurt themselves just as much." - Kid Cudi

8. "More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made." - Greg LeMond

9. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” - Robert Brault

10. "Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past." - Tryon Edwards

11. "An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything." - Lynn Johnston

12. "It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity." - Stephen Covey

13. "The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features." - Leon Uris

14. "Fill your heart with the creative power to accept the past, decorate the present and transform the future." - Rajneesh

15. "When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly." - Dorothy Parker

1. "Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth." - Benjamin Disraeli

2. "If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission." - Grace Hopper

3. "Apologies only account for that which they do not alter." - Benjamin Disraeli

4. "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget." - Thomas Szasz

5. "It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission." - Grace Hopper

6. "It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them." - P. G. Wodehouse

7. "The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology." - Red Auerbach

8. "An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings." - Margaret MacMillan

9. "Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action." - Stella Young

10. "Sometimes there's just no room for apologies." - Alexander Volkanovski

11. "An apology might help, but you can change your life without one." - Robin Quivers

12. "Apology is only egotism wrong side out." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

13. "Bad excuses are worse than none." - Thomas Fuller

14. "Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made. Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made." - Greg LeMond

15. "Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless." - Bryan Davis

1. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future." - Paul Boese

2. "Forgiveness doesn't make the other person right, it makes you free." - Stormie Omartian

3. "Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future." - Lewis B. Smedes

4. "The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mahatma Gandhi

5. "Not to forgive is to be imprisoned by the past, by old grievances that do not permit life to proceed with new business." - Lance Morrow

6. "We all agree that forgiveness is a beautiful idea until we have to practice it." - C. S. Lewis

7. "Those who cannot forgive others break the bridge over which they themselves must pass." - Confucius

8. "We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

9. "Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again."-~ Jack Kornfield

10. "Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love." - Mahatma Gandhi

11. "To err is human; to forgive, divine." - Alexander Pope

12. "Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in." - Louise Hay

13. "True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else." - Robert Holden

14. "When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future." - Bernard Meltzer

15. "By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing." - Caroline Myss