Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

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

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Thomas Szasz

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

Forgotten is forgiven.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Camus, Albert

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

21.

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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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Auson

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

Boese, Paul

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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

Brown, Les

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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]

Bible

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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

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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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