Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Lawana Blackwell

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Dietrich, Marlene

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Dolores Huerta

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Camus, Albert

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

Edwards, Tryon

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

10.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

11.

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher

12.

Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one.

Chesterfield, Lord

13.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

14.

No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.

Real Live Preacher

15.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

Brown, Les

16.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Marden, Orison Swett

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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

Confucius

18.

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

19.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Balzac, Honore De

20.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Mitchell, Margaret

21.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

24.

My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. [Job 14:17]

Bible

25.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

26.

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Augustine, St.

27.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

28.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

29.

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Arendt, Hannah

30.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

32.

You should pardon many things in others, nothing in yourself.

Auson

33.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Boese, Paul

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This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Bacon, Francis

35.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

36.

Forgotten is forgiven.

37.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

38.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

39.

Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.

Higginson, Ella

40.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

41.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

42.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

Huxley, Aldous

44.

If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Twain, Mark

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Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell

47.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.