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

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.
Margaret Lee Runbeck

It is destiny’ phrase of the weak human heart! ‘It is destiny’ dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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

When you realize you’ve made a mistake, make amends immediately. It’s easier to eat crow while it’s still warm.
Dan Heist

Friends are God’s apology for relations.
Hugh Kingsmill

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.
Kitty Kelley

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes

My mother could make anybody feel guilty – she used to get letters of apology from people she didn’t even know.
Joan Rivers

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

An apology is a good way to have the last word.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology.

Apologizing – a very desperate habit – one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

I don’t ask for an apology because it’s only tomorrow’s fish-and-chip paper.
Tracey Emin

Repentance is but want of power to sin.
John Dryden

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

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

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

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so you apologize for truth.
Benjamin Disraeli

If Bush said just once: ‘Boy. I hope you accept my apology as a country,’ or showed some humanity.
Burt Bacharach

If God doesn’t destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.
Jay Leno

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.
Kimberly Johnson

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
King Charles I

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

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

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

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

Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.

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.

The best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.
John Milton

The minute a phrase, becomes current, it becomes an apology for not thinking accurately to the end of the sentence.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Repentance is for little children.
Adolf Eichmann

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

No sensible person ever made an apology.
Ralph Waldo Emerson