Apology Quotations

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself.

A poor choice of words conveyed to some the impression that I embrace the discarded policies of the past. Nothing could be further from the truth, and I apologize to anyone who was offended by my statement.

I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress.

Never apologize, mister, it’s a sign of weakness.

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

More people should apologize, and more people should accept apologies when sincerely made.

Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.

The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.

Jasmine apologized and said she was sorry and said she loved me, she couldn't believe it and said she thought it would be her. All of them were really, really sorry that it happened to me.

Cheyenne Autumn was received not too successfully. I still think it was a very good movie. It was kinda Ford's apology for the way he had treated Indians in his past pictures.

It will never do to plead sin as an excuse for sin, or to attempt to justify sinful acts by pleading that we have an evil heart. This instead of being a valid apology, is the very ground of our condemnation.

You don't want to have to come into work on Monday already apologizing. I try to save my apologies for what I've done later in the week.

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

I never, ever want to apologize for a film. If it's bad I'll say it's my fault. And that's what I can say so far in all the films that I've done, that if you don't like it, it's entirely my fault.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

I've made apologies to people I needed to, but I can't apologise to people I don't know for things they don't understand.

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

I'm not ashamed of being gay, never have been and never will be. For that I have no apologies

Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.

It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.

Our systems, perhaps, are nothing more than an unconscious apology for our faults, a gigantic scaffolding whose object is to hide from us our favorite sin.

You must accept the truth from whatever source it comes.

I am here today to again apologize for the personal mistakes I have made and the embarrassment I have caused. I make this apology to my neighbors and my constituents, but I make it particularly to my wife, Huma.

I can wholeheartedly apologize for not being at all sorry. And it really is the least I can do.

My singing voice is somewhere between a drunken apology and a plumbing problem.

Women live lives of continual apology. They are born and raised to take the blame for other people's behavior. If they are treated without respect, they tell themselves that they have failed to earn respect. If their husbands do not fancy them, it is because they are unattractive.

I want to apologize to all of the people I have let down because of my behavior which has reflected badly on my family, friends, co-workers, business associates and others.

I did pose for 'Black and White' magazine, a prestigious, artistic publication, several years ago... I did this as a piece of art and make no apologies for the creative decisions I've made as an artist in my 20-year career.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.

I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.

The Apology opened the opportunity for a new relationship based on mutual respect and mutual responsibility between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia. Because without mutual respect and mutual responsibility, the truth is we can achieve very little.

I try to read everything that's sent me - play scripts, movie scripts - but I've had to make a rule. If the author hasn't grabbed me by Page 25, the piece goes back with a note of apology.

I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed.

Watching President Obama apologize last week for America's arrogance - before a French audience that owes its freedom to the sacrifices of Americans - helped convince me that he has a deep-seated antipathy toward American values and traditions.

Why should I apologize because God throws in crystal chandeliers, mahogany floors, and the best construction in the world?

I just was apologizing for maybe being a little goofy.

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

I think secretly I've realized after my time on the planet that I have no control over what people feel about me or need from me, so I just have a more laid-back approach in my apologies.

I've spent my life hearing people trying to apologize for music.

I always think that art is one of the most wonderful exciting curious ways to learn. I have no worries or apologies about art being used as a teaching medium.

I never apologized for anything in my life. The only thing I'm sorry about is putting a curse on Roger Ebert's colon. If a fat pig like Roger Ebert doesn't like my movie, then I'm sorry for him.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

While he was president, it was popular to be a Nixon hater.

I had innumerable analysts who came to me in apology that the world that we were finding was not the world that they had thought existed and that they had estimated. Reality on the ground differed in advance.

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

Conspiracy theorists of the world, believers in the hidden hands of the Rothschilds and the Masons and the Illuminati, we skeptics owe you an apology. You were right. The players may be a little different, but your basic premise is correct: The world is a rigged game.

After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with.

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

Nixon's grand mistake was his failure to understand that Americans are forgiving, and if he had admitted error early and apologized to the country, he would have escaped.

I have some girls who I look back on and I think, 'Wow, they were really horrible to me.' I would love an apology from a few girls, but whatever. I'm not holding any grudges. I'm over it.

As nations we should also commit afresh to righting past wrongs. In Australia we began this recently with the first Australians - the oldest continuing culture in human history. On behalf of the Australian Parliament, this year I offered an apology to indigenous Australians for the wrongs they had suffered in the past.

I make no apologies for loving the finer things in life or the men I choose to date. I don't feel bad about the person I am. Now, I do have an edge, rawness and realness, and I can tell you I'm going to keep that.

I sing 'All Apologies' with my own lyrics. People want to sing along, but then, oops, they realize it's a different story.

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.

I am not very moved by historical apologies.

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.

Even before Watergate and his resignation, Nixon had inspired conflicting and passionate emotions.

Sincere apologies are for those that make them, not for those to whom they are made.

Nixon is finding out there are no tails on an Eisenhower jacket.

There's no point apologizing about where you come from.

The biggest change in my life is that I now have to apologize for being thin.

I still don't know quite what I'm supposed to do or be.

In the case of the Japanese, they usually commit suicide before they make any apology.

On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

The first step is that the Cambodian government has expressed sincerity to apologize for what happened.

The apology, that is constantly put forth for the injustice of government, viz., that a man must consent to give up some of his rights, in order to have his other rights protected - involves a palpable absurdity, both legally and politically.

I serve a higher power, Jesus Christ. I make no apologies in saying that.

We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us.

I have a no-apology policy. No apologies for jokes. I apologize in my real life all the time. I say ridiculous things, I make mistakes constantly. But when I'm on stage, I'm at a microphone it's a joke!

When we talk about feminism - equality without apology for all - we can't be talking about for all white women or all highly educated women but all women, regardless of color, class, creed, sexual orientation or identity.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

I feel like this is a dream - and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.

I make no apologies for being a huge fan of radio songs.

If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.

Carry the battle to them. Don't let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don't ever apologize for anything.

I don't ask for an apology because it's only tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.

Canadians can easily 'pass for American' as long as we don't accidentally use metric measurements or apologize when hit by a car.

I will begin my presidency with a jobs tour. President Obama began with an apology tour. America, he said, had dictated to other nations. No Mr. President, America has freed other nations from dictators.

People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.

I'm sorry my existence is not very noble or sublime.

I want you to answer this question: Why should you settle for anything less than an authentic conservative who will fight for your views and values without an apology? Think about that.

We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a letter of apology to the Chinese. And, he's also given them a gift certificate for future nuclear secrets.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

I used to think we were going to win in the '60s. Nixon went out and I thought we won.

These are important reforms. Infrastructure, education, health, hospitals, closing the gap with indigenous Australians. Also the Apology to the first Australians. As Prime Minister of the country I am proud of each and every one of these achievements.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity.

You've probably noticed already that I'm dressed like a grown-up... I apologize to the Academy, and I promise that I will never do it again.

America's finest - our men and women in uniform, are a force for good throughout the world, and that is nothing to apologize for.

I'm not a Hollywood basher because enough good movies come out of the Hollywood system every year to justify its existence, without any apologies.

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.