Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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.

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

Auson

4.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

5.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

6.

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

Sophocles

7.

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

8.

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

Boese, Paul

9.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

10.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

11.

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

Thomas Szasz

12.

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

Edwards, Tryon

13.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

14.

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

Higginson, Ella

15.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, Spanish

18.

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

19.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

20.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Twain, Mark

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

27.

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

Bible

28.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

35.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

36.

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

37.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

Celine, Louis-Ferdinand

38.

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

39.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

40.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

44.

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

45.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

46.

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

47.

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

Dolores Huerta

48.

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

49.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

50.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh