Florence King Quotes

If you're willing to tell somebody that you love them, are you also willing to say you're sorry? You need to, even when you think you're in the right.

In our private lives, we hate saying sorry. I would rather saute my eyeballs in butter than admit I am wrong to my husband.

I will make it a point to voice my opinions. But if I am at fault, I will also apologise.

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

It's hard for a fellow to keep a chip on his shoulder if you allow him to take a bow.

Real men know how to listen, and real men know how to be honest.

I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.

I apologise to people when I need to.

Always admit when you're wrong. You'll save thousands in therapy... and a few friendships too.

I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don't go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they're nothing.

I have some regrets that I might have hurt men in my life. But they can take care of themselves.

When you make a mistake—a big mistake, you’re going to have to apologize—a lot!

Lots of men have failed as presidents, as Trump surely will, but few fail so dismally as role models. He's a boy's idea of a man. He's a man's idea of a boy.

I never like to say that I'm better than anybody else.

I have found that when I have attacked people personally, that's been a stupid mistake on my part. And so whoever I have attacked personally I apologize for.

People can overlook any shortcoming, but they will not tolerate arrogance.

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.

In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."

It is a little theory of mine that has much exercised my mind lately, that most of the problems of this silly and delightful world derive from our apologising for those things which we ought not to apologise for, and failing to apologise for those things for which apology is necessary.

You are just as capable of making a mistake as anyone else. By insisting too eagerly upon a small right, you may turn it into a wrong against yourself and also against your neighbor.

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.

I feel like I am a good person and a professional, very able leader of men.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.