Sorry Quotes

True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive.
-Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.
-Chinese Proverb

Feeling sorry for yourself, and you present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.
-Dale Carnegie

Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.
-H. G. Wells

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

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

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

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

You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched.
- Edgar Watson Howe, Country Town Sayings, 1911

Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry.
-Mark Twain

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.
-Grace Hopper

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
-William Blake

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

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

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe, Little Foxes, 1865

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

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

Being Politically Correct means always having to say you're sorry.
-Charles Osgood