Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

Lauter

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

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

Forgotten is forgiven.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

10.

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

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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

12.

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

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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

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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

Auson

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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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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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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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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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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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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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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

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

27.

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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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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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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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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

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Proverb

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Thomas Szasz

41.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Brown, Les

44.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Euripides

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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

48.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

49.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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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