Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Dietrich, Marlene

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Higginson, Ella

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

Balzac, Honore De

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Brown, Les

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

Harris, Sidney J.

10.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Proverb

13.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

14.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

15.

Forgotten is forgiven.

16.

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

Augustine, St.

17.

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

Thomas Szasz

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Bible

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.

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

23.

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

Boese, Paul

24.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

25.

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

Dolores Huerta

26.

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

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

30.

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

31.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Heine, Heinrich

34.

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

35.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

36.

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

Euripides

37.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

Lauter

39.

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

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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

41.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

We pardon to the extent that we love.