Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher

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

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Auson

10.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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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

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

15.

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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Forgotten is forgiven.

17.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

24.

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

Bible

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

Lauter

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Wilde, Oscar

30.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

34.

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

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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Forgiveness is God's command.