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

1.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

2.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Proverb, Spanish

6.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

7.

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

Camus, Albert

8.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

9.

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

12.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

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

Boese, Paul

16.

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

Lauter

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

Szasz, Thomas

19.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Twain, Mark

22.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

25.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

26.

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

Balzac, Honore De

27.

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

Lawana Blackwell

28.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

29.

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

30.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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.

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

Dolores Huerta

33.

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

34.

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

Real Live Preacher

35.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]

Bible

36.

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

Auson

37.

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

Bible

38.

Forgotten is forgiven.

39.

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

Sophocles

40.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

41.

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

42.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.

Hammarskjold, Dag

44.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

45.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

46.

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

47.

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

Proverb

48.

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

Bible

49.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

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