Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Twain, Mark

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Auson

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

Euripides

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Bible

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Gibran, Kahlil

10.

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

Proverb

11.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

12.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

13.

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

14.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

15.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

16.

Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.

Lawana Blackwell

17.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

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

19.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

20.

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

21.

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

Boese, Paul

22.

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

23.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

24.

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

25.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

26.

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

Bible

27.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

28.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

29.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

30.

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

Heine, Heinrich

31.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Wilde, Oscar

34.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

35.

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

36.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

37.

No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.

Real Live Preacher

38.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Higginson, Ella

40.

To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

Bierce, Ambrose

41.

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

42.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

43.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

44.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

45.

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

46.

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

Sophocles

47.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

48.

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

Brown, Les

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Forgiveness is God's command.