Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Sophocles

2.

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

Euripides

3.

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

Lawana Blackwell

4.

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

5.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

6.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

7.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

8.

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

9.

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

Lauter

10.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

11.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

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.

14.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

16.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

17.

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

18.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

19.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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

Edwards, Tryon

21.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

22.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

23.

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

Bible

24.

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

26.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

28.

Forgotten is forgiven.

29.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

31.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

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

Higginson, Ella

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb

37.

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

Auson

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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

41.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

42.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

43.

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

Camus, Albert

44.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

Boese, Paul

47.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

48.

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

Balzac, Honore De

49.

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

Bible

50.

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.

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