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«It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character.»
Author: Dale E. Turner
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Character,
Errors,
Mistakes,
Self-respect
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«When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.»
«We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
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«Classic 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.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
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«Oh, Lord, won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz My friends all drive Porsches, I must 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»
Author: Ogden Nash
(Writer)
| About:
Friends,
Friendship
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«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 endeavour themselves by way of amends to be a help and ornament thereunto.»
«The more ugly, older, more cantankerous, more ill and poorer I become, the more I try to make amends by making my colors more vibrant, more balanced and beaming.»
Author: Vincent van Gogh
(Painter)
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«It is the amends of a short and troublesome life, that doing good and suffering ill entitles man to a longer and better»
«There is a feeling of Eternity in youth, which makes us amends for everything. To be young is to be as one of the Immortal Gods.»
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