Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Dolores Huerta

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Boese, Paul

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Augustine, St.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

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

Brown, Les

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

16.

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

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

Szasz, Thomas

19.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

20.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

21.

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

22.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

25.

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

Proverb

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Lauter

30.

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

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.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

36.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Real Live Preacher

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.

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

Heine, Heinrich

43.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

44.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

45.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.