David Whyte Quotes

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

We all fantasize about a relationship we'd like to do over or something we'd like to change about our past. I think there are a lot more opportunities for second chances in our lives than we think.

I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I love coaching my grandkids, but I love working with my two sons. J.D. is the head coach, and I'm the assistant - you believe that? I missed so much of them growing up. I really messed up there. So I like working with J.D. and Coy. I'm trying not to do the same thing again. With J.D. and Coy, I missed so much.

You've got to acknowledge what you did wrong and see if you can fix it to the extent possible, and turn the page.

Right actions for the future are the best apologies for wrong ones in the past - the best evidence of regret for them that we can offer, or the world receive.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

When we tell the story of our own conversion, I would have it done with great sorrow, remembering what we used to be, and with great joy and gratitude, remembering how little we deserve these things.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

I think everybody wants to redeem themselves after they've done something that might be considered negative. I don't think anyone wants to go to the grave negative.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

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

Every single thing I've done has made me who I am today. The only thing I would take back is hurting the people that I love, and the people who I love have already read my lyrics and heard my apologies. But the rest of the world, I don't need to apologize to them. My life doesn't have anything to do with the rest of the world.

Apology is often the first step in correcting a wrong. Having moved for a position of saying 'I don't need forgiveness,' Mr. Trump is now taking a second look at past behaviors, things that he's said and done that he regrets. While he is not asking for forgiveness for being human, he is admitting that he's made mistakes and humbly making apologies.

I believe in the redemptive need to admit mistakes, express regret, and ask for forgiveness.

The films of which I'm most proud I've written are the ones that pivot on forgiveness.

I can't turn the clock back but I can seek the forgiveness of those I've wronged.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

I've done things that weren't good, you know, but I made up for my mistakes.

My personal history is strewn with massive errors in judgment. They're all precious to me.