Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

- Dudek, Louis

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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

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

Auson

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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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

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The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Mitchell, Margaret

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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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Real Live Preacher

31.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Twain, Mark

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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

Lauter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

44.

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

Dolores Huerta

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.