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

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

Euripides

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

Proverb

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

Edwards, Tryon

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Sophocles

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

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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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

11.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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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

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

Thomas Szasz

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Bacon, Francis

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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

Dolores Huerta

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Auson

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

34.

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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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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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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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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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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