I am the type of person who believes an apology should be sincere and from the heart.
A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored.
An apology with a defense built in isn't much of an apology
Is it meaningless to apologize? Never.
Every time I tried to tell you the words just came out wrong, so I'll have to say I love you in a song.
Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.
It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.
Be willing to apologize. Proper apologies have three parts: 1) What I did was wrong. 2) I'm sorry that I hurt you. 3) How do I make it better? It's the third part that people tend to forget. Apologize when you screw up and focus on other people, not on yourself.
Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button.
But my apology was a thousand apologies.
You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.
I would never condone violence against women in any form, and for all of those I offended, I am sincerely sorry.
A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.
I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket.
A woman in the depths of despair proves so persuasive that she wrenches the forgiveness lurking deep in the heart of her lover. This is all the more true when that woman is young, pretty, and so decollete as to emerge from the neck of her gown in the costume of Eve.
And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.
I'm constantly meeting people that I hurt, you know? This is not - when I go and talk about these things, this is not a theoretical - it's not a theoretical apology. It's something that I live every day.
I’m sorry for everything.” Then he turns and pushes back into the woods, and he’s gone.
True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.
But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.
It's awkward and silent as I wait for you to say, what I need to hear now, your sincere apology. When you mean it, I'll believe it, if you text it I'll delete, let's be clear. Oh, I'm not coming back, you're taking 7 steps here.
There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.
It didn't hurt, did it? When I hit you?" "Sure. Fractured skull. Concussion, the lot..." "But seriously, Kath. No hard feelings, right? I'm awfully sorry. I honestly am.
It's very rare to have a patient who isn't absolutely delighted when you say, 'I read your feedback. The session didn't go well. You actually got more upset, and I made about three really horrible errors.' If you do that from the heart and not as a gimmick, boy, it's a wonderful thing.
To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.
