Being Sorry Quotes

Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words.

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

Repentance is being sorry enough to quit your sin. You will never know the forgiving mercy of God while you are still wedded to your sins. Repentance is the soul's divorce from sin, but it will always be joined to faithRepentance that is not joined to faith is a legalistic repentanceProfessed faith that is not joined to repentance is a spurious faith, for true faith is faith in Christ to save me not in but from my sin. Repentance and faith are inseparable, and 'unless you repent you will all likewise perish' (Luke 13:3).

I don't go in for being sorry for people. For one thing it's insulting. One is only sorry for people when they're sorry for themselves. Self-pity is one of the biggest stumbling blocks in the world today.

Being sorry won't get you into heaven. Get happy, son. Get that old spring into your step and stay on your toes.

But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.

There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

True sorrow is as rare as true love.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Being sorry for myself is a luxury I can't afford.

All successful people these days seem to be neurotic. Perhaps we should stop being sorry for them and start being sorry for me - for being so confounded normal.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

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

Never apologize for what you feel. It's like being sorry for being real.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

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

Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.

Sacrifice is at the heart of repentance. Without deeds, your apology is worthless.

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

I'm sorry you're angry is not an apology.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

You can always say sorry but the real apology is when you hear the sadness in their voice and see the look in their eyes. And you realize that they have hurt themselves just as much.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Friends are God's apology for relations.

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

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.

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

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

When you realize you've made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

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

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

If theft is advantageous to everyone who succeeds at it, and adultery is a good strategy, at least for males, for increasing presence in the gene pool, why do we feel they are wrong? Shouldn't the only morality that evolution produces be the kind Bill Clinton had - being sorry you got caught?

A hero is someone we can admire without apology.

The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.

History is the same thing over and over again.

Being an American means never having to say you're sorry.