Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Proverb

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Camus, Albert

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

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

Augustine, St.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Twain, Mark

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

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

10.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

11.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

12.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

13.

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

14.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

15.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

18.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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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

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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Forgotten is forgiven.

23.

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

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

Dolores Huerta

25.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

26.

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

Bible

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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

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

32.

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

Auson

34.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

39.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

40.

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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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

43.

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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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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