Best Apology Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“You know, I'm an easy, easy girl to repair things with. It just takes an apology or a conversation that's true and honest and real, and two people that want to.”

“I make no apology for the love of competition.”

“Me and Dre have the best relationship in the world; we don't have one at all. I don't look for an apology from him because I don't think it would do anything. It wouldn't be meaningful.”

“You know, I'm really bad at apologies. I'm just really bad at 'em.”

“Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.”

“I don't want to critique an apology. An apology is an apology.”

“How can you accept an apology from someone if they don't say what they did?”

“In the grownup world an apology tour is just for show.”

“A lot of people want to talk about me and my hazing. Yes, I did. I make no apologies about it whatsoever.”

“Sometimes all you're looking for is an apology.”

“I made the apologies that needed to be made, and so I didn't feel that Media Matters was a continuing form of saying I was sorry.”

“I make no apology for wanting to make a profit - the more I make, the bigger percentage will go to charity. So most of the work I do now is motivated by that.”

“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.”

“And I know I'm supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can't quite muster the guilt anymore.”

“I want to express my deepest apology to the athletes, the people of Salt Lake City in Utah and the millions of citizens worldwide who love and respect the games.”

“I am not very moved by historical apologies.”

“Apologies are great, but they don't really change anything. You know what does? Action.”

“My only apology for my weight right now is maybe it's not too healthy.”

“I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it.”

“In 2013, when it turned out that the plot of LaBeouf's short film 'HowardCantour.com' (2012) had been purloined from graphic novelist Daniel Clowes's 2007 comic 'Justin M. Damiano', the actor-director responded with a series of tweet apologies that also appeared to be shoplifted.”

“My objective with men at 2nd and 3rd is to get one quality pitch to drive them in. If it's not available, I'm going to go to first base. I won't make any apologies about that.”

“Leading up to this fight Julian Williams talked, and I held it in. I did what I had to do to become the champion of the world and I deserve my respect. He disrespected me all the way up to the fight. I said I don't want your congratulations, I want your apology. I don't care what they say, I knocked him out.”

“I am the type of person who believes an apology should be sincere and from the heart.”

“Delusion and denial does not equal an apology.”

“I make no apology about being a hillbilly.”

“I get apologies from Gamergaters pretty regularly saying: 'I didn't think you were a real person.'”

“The history of our country has been driven by a Judeo-Christian worldview, and so that has dominated the landscape. So it's important that we recognize the lordship of Jesus Christ without apology in our emphasis on prayer.”

“There's never really been a true apology for slavery.”

“I didn't want the responsibility, I didn't know how to handle the responsibility of speaking for the gay community. I always felt like I owed them a huge apology for coming out too late.”

“For me, it is all about people having jobs, and that is why I make no apology for having focused relentlessly on employment and job creation.”

“Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 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.”

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

“We as Democrats have no apologies to make to anyone.”

“After the fighting is done, and even when it's still happening, apologies are often needed for the recounting of bare facts. Sometimes bare facts feel unpatriotic.”

“I make no apologies for informing parents of the expanded universal child care benefit.”

“In GOP land, apologies and resignations are never enough.”

“I repeat for the umpteenth time, without making apologies: My children have had more than their fair share of presidency under their father. There cannot be any hereditary transfer of power.”

“I am human and we have all said things to each other that we would love to put back in our mouths but I can't and you can't. All we can do is make a sincere apology and move on.”

“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.”

“I wouldn't give Charles Barkley an apology at gunpoint. He can never expect an apology from me... If anything, he owes me an apology for coming to play with his sorry, fat butt.”

“I'm never going to make apologies for trying to create a kind of society and a kind of community where my kids will be proud to grow up in.”

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

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

“I'm not sure about public apologies on behalf of other people as far as the motivation for them.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I make no apologies.”

“We're talking about in the Proposition 8 case fundamental rights, civil rights. I offer no apology for the position I took in Prop. 8.”

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

“True story: In the spring, my first in K.C., I'd written a series of columns in the Star demanding the Royals front office give fans discounted prices at concession stands as an apology for the 1994 strike. The Royals acquiesced.”

“I make no apologies for my quirky sense of humor, my personal challenges, my embarrassing moments, my messiness, and deep personal issues I've shared with the world. I have kept it 100% real... Real crazy at times, but always real.”

“It's hard to pin Beto down on what he really stands for. Between the clumsy apologies and vacant platitudes, he doesn't seem to have a set of philosophical priorities other than using his goofy ears to do a lot of listening so he doesn't have to make any truly bold policy declarations.”

“Trump apologized for nothing, including the horrible tape, right? No apology.”

“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.”

“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.”

“There are no apologies for being a female in heavy metal and especially not in 2019.”

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

“To me, as I see it, reparations would be something that is fairly specific to the descendants of slaves, and it would also be an official apology from the United States government for slavery.”

“Please look at the response to Windrush, and the apology, in terms of trying to put things right and, secondly, the bigger picture about how this government has been committed to trying to deal with the injustices in society, some of which matter more to people from ethnic minorities.”

“Everyone knows I'm black. I am who I am. This is the person that Lester Sr. and June Holt raised, and I make no apology for it. At the same time, I'm never going to pull a race card to get what I want. You can't have it both ways.”

“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.”

“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.”

“I don't know if there is redemption for people like Charlie Rose or Garrison Keillor. An apology helps, but what really matter are deeds.”

“When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write comedy. No apologies, no trying to be serious, just full-on entertainment. The minute I went with that and threw myself into it, it felt just like writing my first book again - it was really liberating.”

“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.”

“I don't have any issues with clowns - I feel like I owe them an apology in some ways.”

“Authentic apology is a tricky thing to pull off in politics, which is why it so seldom occurs. Plausible deniability must be preserved. True contrition has to be displayed. Traitors to the cause must be immediately be jettisoned. Most of all, the goal is to stop the bleeding.”

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

“I have no apologies.”

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

“Apologies always seem to me like excuses.”

“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.”

“Apology is only egotism wrong side out.”

“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.”

“Israel's behavior when it comes to Egypt is that of a battered wife. Nothing but apologies.”

“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.”

“I apologies to my fans, teammates and the Grizzlies organization for regrettably not doing the necessary research about what supplements I can put in my body.”

“An apology offered and, equally important, received is a step towards reconciliation and, sometimes, recompense. Without that process, hurts can rankle and fester and erupt into their own hatreds and wrongdoings.”

“But it was also the best mistake I've ever made, because what it did was hopefully allow a whole new generation to make up their own minds about Scientology and for that I make no apology.”

“In 2015, our government will make no apologies for using innovative ways to inform Canadians of the terrific enhanced benefits to which they are entitled.”

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

“For many women, and a fair number of men, saying 'I'm sorry' isn't literally an apology; it's a ritual way of restoring balance to a conversation.”

“Republicans fear Nancy Pelosi because she has Teflon skin and a spine of steel - and because she is a progressive woman who wields power with supreme potency and without a moment of apology or uncertainty.”

“On behalf of everyone at the DNC, we want to offer a deep and sincere apology to Senator Sanders, his supporters, and the entire Democratic party for the inexcusable remarks made over email. These comments do not reflect the values of the DNC or our steadfast commitment to neutrality during the nominating process.”

“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.”

“If a heartfelt apology on Twitter isn't enough to restore some small semblance of faith in humanity, I don't know what is.”

“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.”

“I don't drink wine during the day. Not even a little. Otherwise, the rest of the day is an apology.”

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

“We make no apology for people who should be in prison being in prison.”

“I make no apologies for the fact that I have a religious life of my own. I'm speaking as a Christian because I'm speaking as myself.”

“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.”

“Perhaps the most satisfying thing occurred when Michael Jordan became a team owner and said to me, 'I owe you a lot of apologies. It's a lot harder to run a team than I thought.'”

“First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.”