Robert Fripp Quotes

When you feel you've done something wrong, you should apologise for it.

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I'm no different, I've made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

It's always best to ask for forgiveness if you feel that you made a mistake. And again, asking for forgiveness is not just saying the words 'I'm sorry'; it is also offering what you need to do.

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

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

Bury your mistakes.

Come up with a few examples from the Bible – or from history, or from whatever – that kind of show, you know, how when you've made a mess, you can do the best you can to clean it up, you make it right the best you can, and you keep going.

At some point, people have to come out of the penalty box for the things they have done in the past.

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.

Only children believe that apologies fix everything.

I will always be the first to admit when I have done something wrong.

If you've made a mistake, if you've made a blunder, admit it to yourself, and then go to the people affected by it and admit it to them, and tell them you're sorry. Full-heartedly and openly. The fact of the matter is, that people who do that make an enormous impression. It's the right thing to do. It's the moral thing to do.

When you have to apologize, it is well, I suppose, to get the thing over quickly.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Let's not talk punishment.

You must pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please ignore this notice.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

I feel like if you've done something wrong, then you should keep on apologizing to that person.

Mistakes are a drag, because you get in the area of regret and self-pity.

I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.

I don't enjoy eating humble pie; it never tastes good. But I do appreciate it when it happens.

The only people who should really sin are the people who can sin and grin.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.