Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Lauter

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Forgotten is forgiven.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

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

Bacon, Francis

10.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

13.

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Sophocles

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

Bible

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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 a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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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.

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

25.

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

Dolores Huerta

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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.

27.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

31.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Boese, Paul

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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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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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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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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