Making Amends Quotes

Life is too short for long-term grudges.

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

What's done can't be undone.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Do not blame anybody for your mistakes and failures.

The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

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

Above all, learn to live when you're dying.

Forgiveness is better than revenge

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.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.

Forgiveness does not mean excusing.

When I was younger, I was always taught not to make excuses.

The past is history. I can't change any of that.

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.

Blot your misdeeds out (if you are particularly conscientious), by a good deed, as soon as you can; just as we did a correct sum at school on the slate, where an incorrect one was only half rubbed out. It was better than wetting our sponge with our tears; both less loss of time where tears had to be waited for, and a better effect at last.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

In life, we always make the right decisions the second time around, you know?

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.

It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

Bury your mistakes.

The past is the past: what can you do about it?

Guilt is not the best way to remedy your mistakes.

In the past two years, I've started the process of becoming a new man. I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful over the reckless and hurtful things I have done in my life, especially those which have brought me before you today.