Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Auson

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

2.

And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32]

Bible

3.

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

Dolores Huerta

4.

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

Higginson, Ella

5.

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

Real Live Preacher

6.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

7.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

8.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

9.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

12.

Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

14.

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

Brown, Les

15.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

16.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

Real Live Preacher

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

19.

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

20.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

21.

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.

Euripides

22.

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Real Live Preacher

23.

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

24.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

25.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

26.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

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

Augustine, St.

28.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

29.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

30.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

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

32.

Forgotten is forgiven.

33.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

34.

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

Auson

35.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

36.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

37.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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

40.

Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive

Harris, Sidney J.

42.

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

Camus, Albert

43.

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

46.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

47.

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