Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Auson

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

10.

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

11.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

12.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

13.

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

Bible

14.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

15.

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

16.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

17.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

18.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

19.

Forgotten is forgiven.

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

26.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

27.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

28.

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

Boese, Paul

29.

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

Augustine, St.

30.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

31.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

33.

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

34.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

35.

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

Camus, Albert

36.

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

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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