Top 87 Amends Quotes & Sayings

Whatever I do I've always done not because I want something but to compensate for a loss, to bring about a balance, to create amends, to make things right.

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

I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.

My friend Phil has a theory that the Lord, having made teenagers, felt constrained to make amends and so created the golden retriever.

It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better.

Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.

Sadly, [Pablo Escobar] ended up throwing away the one opportunity he had. I naively thought, as a son and as many other Colombians, that he would take this opportunity to make amends with the country.

Back in 2006-07 when we completed the first Ashes whitewash in 86 years, the historical significance didn't really filter in to our thinking. We didn't realise it at the time - we were just making amends for 2005.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

I learned about forgiveness, and I've reached out to others to make amends.

There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.

We make stupid mistakes when we're young; we do our best to make amends for them as we get older. We survive by learning; by learning we survive. Such is life. So be it.

All fortune is good fortune; for it either rewards, disciplines, amends, or punishes, and so is either useful or just.

Whatever we have done, we can always make amends for it without ever looking back in guilt or sorrow.

Nature has decreed that for what men suffer by having to shave, be killed in battle, and eat the legs of chickens, women make amends by housekeeping, childbirth, and writing all the letters for both of them.

I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.

Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.

Let a nation's fervent thanks make some amends for the toils and sufferings of those who survive.

All decays begin in the closet; no heart thrives with out much secret converse with God, and nothing will make amends for the want of it.

A good zoo," Stella said, "is a large domain. A wild cage. A safe place to be. It has room to roam and humans who don't hurt." She pauses, considering her words. "A good zoo is how humans make amends.

In every family, people fight, don't talk and then make amends.

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

It's not a persons mistakes which define them - it's the way they make amends.

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

She still cared for me, and the best way I could make amends to her was to be happy. I do have a knack for finding great women.

It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them.

Just tell the truth and you're home free. If there are amends to be made, you make them. You own it and move on.

Your life is short, your duties many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all

I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well.

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

The thing that nature needs the most from us humans is space. We need to distance ourselves for a while so that we can make amends for all the damage done, and let nature heal.

In my several visits to Germany, I have written in admiration of that country's strenuous efforts to face its past and make amends.

So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends.

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

Wherever I've been, I've left people who joined Hizb ut-Tahrir. I have to make amends. What I did was damaging to British society and the world at large.

I think in most relationships that have problems, there's fault on both sides. And in order for it to work, there has to be some common ground that's shared. And it's not just one person making amends.

Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy.

I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.

The first thing is to be willing. You must become willing to feel the discomfort that's occurred and/or shown up. Some of it is taking ownership of your part in the situation, to clean it up and be willing to make amends.

Like the Puritans, live in terms of the settled judgement that the joy of heaven will make amends of any losses and crosses, strains and pains that we must endure on earth if we are going to follow Christ faithfully. Regard preparedness to die as the first step in learning to live.

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.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends.

I've done some dastardly things but what can I do except make amends and apologize?

Humility leads to strength and not to weakness. It is the highest form of self-respect to admit mistakes and to make amends for them.

Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.

As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

Let a man do what he will by a single woman, the world is encouragingly apt to think Marriage a sufficient amends.

It is vain for us to pray while conscious that we have injured another. Let us first make amends to the injured one before we dare approach God at either the private or the public altar.

I have to say that it's very few countries that are willing to look back at its past and apologize for its act, or make amends for its act, as the United States had one.

Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their favor.

I fully intend to make amends and get back to being a good mother, wife, daughter, and friend.

The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colours more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.

Although we are physically laid to rest, we meet again and again to make amends. If I hurt someone in this life, I'll have to relive it to make amends. It helps you realize that by hurting someone, you are actually hurting yourself.

There is a feeling of Eternity in youth which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortals.

When people have been hurt over and over, and rather than compassion or understanding you're given lectures about how it's really all your fault and that no one needs to make amends, you can lose your mind.

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time.

Karma means that all actions have consequences. Grace means that in a moment of atonement -taking responsibility, making amends, asking for forgiveness - all karma is burned.