Best 11 quotes in «making amends quotes» category

Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it.

Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz - My friends all drive Porsches, I must make amends.

True repentance means making amends with the person when at all possible.

So by keeping her word, Frieda B. made amends. And the two who'd been strangers became best of friends.

The difference between a moral person and a person of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, made out of weakness and tries to make amends with their life when they find the opportunity to say they are sorry is lost.

The quickest way to change a child's behavior and attitude is to get him involved in fixing his mistake. The best way to inspire a child to do better in the future is to give him an opportunity to do better in the present. A punishment makes him feel bad about himself. Making amends helps him feel good about himself, and helps him to see himself as a person who can do good.

Fortuna wished to make amends. Somehow she had summoned and flushed Myrna minx from a subway tube, from some picket line, from the pungent bed of some Eurasian existentialist, from the hands of some epileptic Negro Buddhist, from the verbose midst of a group therapy session.

We’re all just waiting for our moment to redeem ourselves.

While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it’s just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.

You'd be teary, too, yes you would be," he said, "if a girl and her bed had crashed into your head.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.