Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

Szasz, Thomas

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

14.

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

Augustine, St.

15.

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

16.

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

Euripides

17.

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

18.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

19.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

20.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

21.

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

Proverb

22.

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

Bacon, Francis

23.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

24.

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

25.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

28.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Thomas Szasz

31.

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

Lawana Blackwell

32.

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

Wilde, Oscar

33.

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.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

35.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

36.

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

37.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

39.

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

Brown, Les

40.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Lauter

49.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

50.

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