Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

- Ausonius

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Boese, Paul

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

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Edwards, Tryon

12.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

13.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Beecher, Henry Ward

16.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Lauter

17.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

Butler, Samuel

20.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

21.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

22.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

23.

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

Bible

24.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

25.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Szasz, Thomas

26.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

27.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

28.

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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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

31.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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.

34.

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

35.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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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

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

39.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

41.

Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.

Al-massabaih, Mishkat

42.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

43.

Forgotten is forgiven.

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

Dolores Huerta

46.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

47.

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

Sophocles

48.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar