Good Apology Quotes

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

Randy Pausch

#2. Being broke is not a crime, nor is it proof of one's inadequacy as a writer or as a human being. If you go around with an attitude of implicit apology for being temporarily without funds, it's going to do you more harm than good.

Lawrence Block

#3. In 1736, Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette printed an apology for its irregular appearence because its printer was "with the Press, labouring for the publick Good, to make Money more plentiful." The press was busy printing money.

John Kenneth Galbraith

#4. Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place.

Socrates

#5. Jenna swallowed the lump in her throat. "Good evening, gentlemen."
"You'll be hard pressed to find a gentleman in this bunch," a forty-something guy with close-cropped white hair said, laughing.
She walked closer to the group and held out her hands in apology. "Sorry, didn't mean to offend.

Aria Kane

#6. I gave myself a good talking to. I could not turn into an inept idiot, because some guy hadn't accepted my apology ... To hell with him. I was Joss Butler. I took shit from no Man! -Chapter 16

Samantha Young

#7. Humility has such power. Apologies can disarm arguments. Contrition can defuse rage. Olive branches do more good than battle axes ever will.

Max Lucado

#8. 'I'm sorry' won't fix what's been broken. It can't reverse time or undo the damage or change anything that happened. But a sincere, humble apology can serve to soften the sting and sometimes do a pretty good patch up job.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#9. An apology informed is good; an apology performed is better.

John Kador

#10. Just say "I'm sorry." It's not a tongue twister. It does not need repeating multiple times. The phrase is simple and short, easy to articulate. And the last time I checked, it sounded just as good - if not better - in a whisper. So just say it; say "I'm sorry.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. It's no good talking to a man with an apology for a brain.

Lester Cole

#12. Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

Richard Widmark

#13. I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

Quentin Tarantino

#14. A preface is usually an excrescence on a good book, and a vain apology for a worthless one;

Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

#15. When something feels real, you don't make any apologies for it. When it feels good to you, nothing else matters. Everything else is just noise.

Rihanna

#16. I thought to myself: I am wiser than this man; neither of us probably knows anything that is really good, but he thinks he has knowledge, when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think I have.

Plato

#17. Apology accepted. If you're finished Mrs. Porter ---"
"Allegra."
"Fine. If you're finished, Allegra, I'd like to go."
"I'm not."
Good Lord, but the woman was a blister that refused to pop.

Chris Karlsen

#18. I propose to put forward an apology for mathematics; and I may be told that it needs none, since there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy.

G.H. Hardy

#19. Good point." Sophia said at last. "I'm not very good at saying sorry, but I apologize.

Chris Kurtz

#20. My favorite was Love Is ... Never Having to Say You're Sorry. This was,the good Lord knew, a dream of mine. But every time I refused to apologize for something, Love seemed to just fly out the window.

Haven Kimmel

#21. It is not the purpose of a juryman's office to give justice as a favor to whoever seems good to him, but to judge according to law, and this he has sworn to do.

Socrates