1. When anger and bitterness overpower your goodness, you can neither apologize nor forgive.

- Balroop Singh

2. Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

- J.R.R.Tolkien

3. You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.

- Edgar Watson Howe

4. An apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

- Margaret Lee Runbeck

5. Apologies aren’t meant to change the past, they are meant to change the future.

- Kevin Hancock

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

- Red Auerbach

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

- Henry Kissinger

8. I don’t like it, and I’m sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

- Erwin Schrodinger

9. Flowers say you’re sorry. A date says you’ve learnt your lesson. A diamond says both the above. All three and you’re making her suspicious.

- Saleem Sharma

10. A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

- Kitty Kelley

11. Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

- Robert Brault

12. Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word against a thousand actions.

- Sarah Ockler

13. Saying sorry to someone is hard… but putting your pride down for someone is the hardest.

- Cristina Orante

14. I have learned that sometimes “sorry” is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.

- Claire London

15. Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

- John Wayne

16. Never apologize for showing your feelings. When you do, you are apologizing for the truth.

- Jose N. Harris

17. Apologies are great, but they don’t really change anything. You know what does? Action.

- Stella Young

18. Apologizing does not always mean you’re wrong and the other person is right. It just means you value your relationship more than your ego.

- Mark Matthews

19. For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.

- Unknown

20. Nothing wrong with apologizing, but saying I’m sorry does nothing when you continue to make the same mistakes.

- Unknown

21. 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

22. The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.

- Henry Boye

23. Any good apology has 3 parts: 1)I’m sorry 2)It’s my fault 3)What can I do to make it right? Most people forget the third part.

- Unknown

24. An apology can be a wonderful thing so long as it is infrequent and from the heart. However, beware of the person who justifies bad behavior with apologies. For them it is a means to an end, and quite often at your expense.

- Gary Hopkins

25. Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

- King Charles I

26. True friends stab you in the front.

- Oscar Wilde

27. I understand the concept of being the bigger person but I do not understand why some people apologize to others when they weren’t wrong.

- Unknown

28. True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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

- Robin Williams

30. A genuine apology is like an eleventh-hour rain on a dusty crop. Grossly overdue, but miraculously just in time.

- Jacqueline A. Bussie

31. More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

- Greg LeMond

32. I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word.

- Ernest Hemingway

33. I am determined to offer an apology with my death.

- Hideki Tojo

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Robin Quivers

36. The ability of a person to atone has always been the most remarkable of human features.

- Leon Uris

37. 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

38. An apology given just to appease one’s conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!

- Evinda Lepins

39. If an apology is followed by an excuse or a reason, it means they are going to commit same mistake again they just apologized for.

- Amit Kalantri

40. Some people accidentally walk on your feet and apologize, while others walk all over your heart and don’t even realize.

- Unknown

41. Be the hero of hearts; learn to say I’m sorry.

- Richelle E. Goodrich

42. I believe that things should be let go once they are discussed. Apology accepted. End of story.

- Brad Goreski

43. 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

44. ‘I’m sorry you’re angry’ is NOT an apology.

- Lisa Lutz

45. Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.

- Emily Kimbrough

46. Saying ‘I’m sorry’ is saying ‘I love you’ with a wounded heart in one hand and your smothered pride in the other.

- Richelle E. Goodrich

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

- Margaret Laurence

48. A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R’s: regret, responsibility, and remedy.

- Beverley Engel, The Power of Apology: Healing Step

49. Saying sorry to someone is hard… but putting your pride down for someone is the hardest.

- Christina Orante

50. It isn’t always to apologize for your mistakes but doing so shows a person with a strong sense of self.

- Byron Pulsifer

51. Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because ‘I’m sorry’ has no value in the grave.

- Lakesha Ruise

52. Apology doesn’t mean that you were wrong, or other person was right. It means that your relationship is valuable than your ego.

- Ain Eineziz

53. Never forget the nine most important words of any family – I love you. You are beautiful. Please forgive me.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

54. He who is sorry for having sinned is almost innocent.

- Seneca

55. My life is an apology for the life of my father.

- Kristin Cashore

56. But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can’t.

- Heather Gudenkauf

57. When you forgive, you free your soul. But when you say I’m sorry, you free two souls.

- Donald L. Hicks, Look into the Stillness: A Spirit

58. Never apologize for having high standards. People who really want to be in your life will rise up to meet them.

- Suman Rai

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

- Unknown

60. Smart people always say sorry, while the stupid ones just wait for the smart one to say sorry.

- Unknown

61. It’s not that ‘sorry’ doesn’t mean anything; it just doesn’t mean anything when some people say it… Don’t be one of those people.

- Steve Maraboli

62. I wish for you the wisdom to realize that forgiveness has nothing to do with an apology.

- Steve Maraboli

63. 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

64. The art of a sincere and heartfelt apology is one of the greatest skills you will ever learn.

- Jeanette LeBlanc

65. Friends are God’s apology for relations.

- Hugh Kingsmill

66. Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.

- Bruce Lee

67. My husband doesn’t apologize. Even to Me

- Claire Underwood, House of Cards

68. A sincere and warmly-expressed apology can produce the same effects as morphine on a suffering soul.

- Richelle E. Goodrich

69. A person can apologize endlessly, and even if you forgive them, sometimes you can’t forget the pain they’ve caused you.

- Nishan Panwar

70. Pride and ego makes a mockery of an apology. Humility wins forgiveness without question…so break ‘yo’self’!

- T. F. Hodge