Justin Halpern Quotes

If the world would apologize, I might consider a reconciliation.

I never meant to antagonize anyone.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

I poked Kenny Walker in the eye by accident. Every time I saw him, I used to apologize to him when I saw him in the NBA.

Apologies are seldom of any use.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

Don't apologize for what you think you did wrong. Apologize for what they think you did wrong.

I think I deserve an apology.

If we stop to apologize and forgive each other every time we step on each other’s toes, we’ll never have time to be friends.

What about a compromise? I’ll kill them first, and if it turns out they were friendly, I’ll apologize.

Mother, are you there? I love you. I never meant to hit you over the head with that shovel.

Not 'Don' in that I-m-sorry-and-now-you'll-forgive-me-like-you-always-do-way. Not this time, Keenan." (Donya)

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

It is certainly impossible to imagine forgiving the enemy while their animus remains undefeated.

If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.

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

Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I feel badly that I hurt you. 3) How do I make this better?

I know I'm probably much too late to try and apologize for my mistakes.

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

But an apology too — you think you’re giving something, but you’re not. You’re really asking for something. You’re asking for forgiveness, you’re asking for the other injured person to make it okay for you. Apologies were harder work for the person getting one than the person giving one.

He will apologize, or I'll give him a lesson in swordplay he will not like at all.

Hopefully America will forgive me.

Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the spot.

If at one time or another I have brushed a few colleagues the wrong way, I must apologize: I had not realized that they were covered with fur.

There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.