Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

2.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

3.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

4.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

5.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

6.

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

Auson

7.

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

Boese, Paul

8.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

9.

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

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

17.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

18.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

19.

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

Sophocles

20.

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

Euripides

21.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

22.

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

Lauter

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

27.

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

Proverb, Spanish

28.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

29.

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

Thomas Szasz

30.

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

31.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

32.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

33.

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

Dolores Huerta

34.

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

35.

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

Szasz, Thomas

36.

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

37.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

38.

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

Balzac, Honore De

39.

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

40.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

41.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

42.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

43.

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

44.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

45.

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

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.

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

Brown, Les

48.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

49.

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