Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

2.

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

Lawana Blackwell

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

6.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

7.

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

Proverb

8.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

9.

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

Twain, Mark

13.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

14.

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.

15.

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

Lauter

16.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

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

19.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

20.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

21.

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

Auson

22.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

Bible

24.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

25.

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

Euripides

26.

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

27.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

28.

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

Bible

29.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

Forgotten is forgiven.

36.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

37.

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

38.

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

Sophocles

39.

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

Szasz, Thomas

40.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

41.

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

42.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

43.

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

44.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

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

Boese, Paul

46.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

47.

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