Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Balzac, Honore De

2.

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

Auson

3.

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.

4.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

5.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

6.

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

7.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

8.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

9.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

10.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

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

Thomas Szasz

14.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

15.

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

Heine, Heinrich

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

17.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

18.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

19.

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

Euripides

20.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

21.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

22.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

23.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

27.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

29.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

31.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

40.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

41.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

42.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

43.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

44.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

46.

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

Augustine, St.

47.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

48.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

49.

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

50.

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