Quotes about apologies

Emotionally immature people don’t step back and think about how their behavior impacts others. There’s no cringe factor for them, so they seldom apologize or experience regret.

A parent never apologises, even if he regrets his actions. It is the child who should apologise.

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound."

Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

When a lady condescends to apologize, there is no keeping one’s anger.

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.

I always had trouble ending short stories in ways that would satisfy a general public. In real life, as during a rerun following a timequake, people don’t change, don’t learn anything from their mistakes, and don’t apologize. In a short story they have to do at least two out of three of those things, or you might as well throw it away in the lidless wire trash receptacle chained and padlocked to the fire hydrant in front of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

You think my apology means I'm weak. But it doesn't. It means I am trying to learn how to be strong.

In her face excuse

Came prologue, and apology too prompt.