Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Bible

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Higginson, Ella

Forgotten is forgiven.

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

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

Auson

10.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

11.

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

Augustine, St.

12.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

Edwards, Tryon

15.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

16.

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

Lawana Blackwell

17.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

18.

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.

19.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

20.

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

Balzac, Honore De

21.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

22.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

23.

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

24.

Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

Proverb

25.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Sophocles

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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

28.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

29.

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

31.

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

Szasz, Thomas

32.

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

Euripides

33.

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

34.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

35.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

36.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

37.

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

Bacon, Francis

38.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

39.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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.

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

Real Live Preacher

42.

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

43.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

44.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

45.

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

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.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

48.

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

Dolores Huerta

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