Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Lauter

2.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

3.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

4.

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

5.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]

Bible

6.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

7.

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

Augustine, St.

8.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

9.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

10.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

11.

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

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

14.

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

Boese, Paul

15.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

16.

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

Higginson, Ella

17.

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

Sophocles

18.

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

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.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

21.

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

Balzac, Honore De

22.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

27.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

36.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

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

39.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

40.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

41.

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

Bible

42.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.