Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

A man must learn to forgive himself.

- Ficke, Arthur Davison

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

2.

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

Brown, Les

3.

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

Lauter

4.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

5.

Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.

Higginson, Ella

6.

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

Boese, Paul

7.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

8.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

9.

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

10.

Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.

Real Live Preacher

11.

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

Thomas Szasz

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

14.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

15.

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

Szasz, Thomas

16.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

17.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Sophocles

21.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

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

23.

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

Proverb, Spanish

24.

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

25.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

26.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

27.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

28.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

29.

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

Lawana Blackwell

30.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Lawana Blackwell

33.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

34.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

35.

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

Heine, Heinrich

36.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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