Apologies Quotes

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

Related topics: Values

Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Friends are God's apology for relations.
- Hugh Kingsmille

Eating words has never given me indigestion.
- Winston Churchill

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

We have only this moment,
sparkling like a star in our hand -
and melting like a snowflake.
- Marie B. Ray

Move out of your comfort zone. You can only
grow if you are willing to feel awkward and
uncomfortable when you try something new.
- Brian Tracy

There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate;
only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Majority rule only works if you're also
considering individual rights,
because you can't have five wolves and one sheep
voting on what to have for dinner.
- Larry Flynt

Nothing in life is to be feared.
It is only to be understood.
- Marie Curie

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
- Robert F. Kennedy

People only see what they are prepared to see.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are only two or three human stories,
and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely
as if they had never happened before.
- Willa Cather

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

The essence of all religions is one.
Only their approaches are different.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Hate is never conquered by hate,
Hate is only conquered by love.
- The Buddha

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

Life only
appears to be
rushing toward us
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You're only here for a short visit.
Don't hurry. Don't worry.
And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
- Walter Hagen

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is an adventure.
I can only wonder what treasure
awaits at the top of the path.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Play with life, laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons
are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is no certainty; there is only adventure.
- Roberto Assagioli

Only those who have learned the power
of sincere and selfless contribution
experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Tony Robbins

Could we change our attitude,
we should not only see life differently,
but life itself would be different.
- Katherine Mansfield

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys
the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist,
and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
- Albert Schweitzer

You cannot teach a man anything;
you can only help him find it within himself.
- Galileo Galilei

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Earl Wilson

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.
- The Buddha

The truth is a snare:
you cannot have it, without being caught.
You cannot have the truth
in such a way that you catch it,
but only in such a way that it catches you.
- Soren Kierkegaard

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue,
but the parent of all other virtues.
- Cicero

A dream you dream alone is only a dream.
A dream you dream together becomes reality.
- John Lennon

In the long run, men hit only what they aim at.
Therefore, they had better aim at something high.
- Henry David Thoreau

The world is moved along, not only
by the mighty shoves of its heroes,
but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes
of each honest worker.
- Helen Keller

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

This isn't a rehearsal or a practice life.
This is your real life - your one and only real life.
There are no retakes - no second chances.
Begin now - live full out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Winning isn't everything; it's the only thing.
- Vince Lombardi

What seems new is only new to us.
- Pearl S. Buck

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation

There are no menial jobs, only menial attitudes.
- William John Bennett

When one has nothing to lose, one becomes courageous.
We are timid only when
there is something we can still cling to.
- Carlos Castaneda

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Proverb

Could you risk believing that everything
will unfold just fine if you completely let go
of all concern about everything else,
and simply are here, now - if only for a moment?
- Dmitri Bilgere

You only live once, and once is enough
if you play your cards right.
- the movie Interiors (1978)

The only place where your dream becomes impossible
is in your own thinking.
- Robert H. Schuller

Commitment cannot be taught;
it can only be caught.
I refer to the crusading spirit.
Without the crusading spirit,
you may have the starting power
but not the staying power.
- Jimmy Yen

When you argue with reality,
you lose - but only always.
- Byron Katie

There are a hundred valid reasons why something can't be done,
but only one reason, Commitment, why it can.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Non-violence means avoiding not only external physical violence
but also internal violence of spirit.
You not only refuse to shoot a man,
but you refuse to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius

There is only one time that is important - NOW!
It is the most important time because
it is the only time that we have any power.
- Leo Tolstoy

Peace cannot be kept by force;
it can only be achieved by understanding.
- Albert Einstein

The only way to discover the limits of the possible
is to go beyond them into the impossible.
- Arthur C. Clarke

I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.
- Susan Sontag

Do not attempt to conquer the world with force,
for force only causes resistance.
- Lao Tzu

You can conquer almost any fear
if you will only make up your mind to do so.
For remember, fear doesn't exist
anywhere except in the mind.
- Dale Carnegie

To be what we are,
and to become what we are capable of becoming,
is the only end in life.
- Baruch Spinoza

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

We must respect the other fellow's religion,
but only in the sense and to the extent
that we respect his theory that
his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
- H. L. Mencken

I am only one, but still I am one.
I cannot do everything, but still I can do something;
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.
- Helen Keller

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life
are not only not indispensable,
but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
- Henry David Thoreau

Minds are like parachutes.
They only function when they are open.
- James Dewar

It takes years to build up trust,
and only seconds to destroy it.
- Anonymous

Be not afraid of growing slowly,
be afraid only of standing still.
- Chinese Proverb

Only aim to do your duty,
and mankind will give you credit where you fail.
- Thomas Jefferson

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie