Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

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Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

10.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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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

19.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Higginson, Ella

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lawana Blackwell

25.

Forgotten is forgiven.

26.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

27.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

Auson

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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

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

Brown, Les

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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

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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

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

Lauter

39.

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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

Dolores Huerta

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Forgive those who have hurt you.