Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

- Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Augustine, St.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

12.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

13.

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

Brown, Les

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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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

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Real Live Preacher

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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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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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Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Real Live Preacher

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

27.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

28.

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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Euripides

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

Auson

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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

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.