Gordon Lightfoot Quotes

Apologies are seldom of any use.

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

If you really screw up, send roses.

In every family, people fight, don't talk and then make amends.

You say: 'Oh, please forgive' You say: 'Oh, live and let live.' But sorry doesn't help us. Sorry will not save us. Sorry is just a word you find so easy to say (so you say it anyway). Sorry doesn't help us. Sorry won't protect us. Sorry won't undo all the good gone wrong.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship.

I think most of the time when people have big disagreements and big misunderstandings, when time lessens that blow it creates a deeper understanding for both people.

I have to make things right with Tiger first before anything else.

I'm grateful that the team allowed me back. I'm looking forward to making it up to them.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Retaliation is sometimes mercy, mercy to both parties

It's important to mend ties after a fight.

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

I regret and grieve over the late troubles. It was a grave mistake, and China will hereafter be a friend of foreigners. No such affair will happen again. China will protect the foreigner, and we hope to be friends in the future.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

A great country acknowledges it's mistakes.

Historic scores cannot be settled, and scars cannot be obliterated.

When you say, 'I'm sorry,' you turn people into your allies, even your partners.

Sometimes you can get into a fight but you know everything the next day will be okay.

People have things that happen between them. I certainly don't keep grudges.

I've been interested in the idea of forgiveness and the necessity of it. I think of it as the most critical piece of any relationship, whether that be business, or romantic, or familial. We fail each other. We make mistakes. If we contract to go on after those mistakes, forgiveness is involved. Forgiveness is required.

First thing I said to him was, 'LeBron, you know this is true. We had five good years and one bad night'. Like a marriage that's good, and then one bad thing happens, and you never talk to each other again.

It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words 'I'm sorry'; it is also offering what you need to do.