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

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

Higginson, Ella

Forgotten is forgiven.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Brown, Les

10.

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

Auson

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Bible

16.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

21.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

22.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

23.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

24.

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

Edwards, Tryon

25.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

26.

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

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

28.

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

Boese, Paul

29.

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

30.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

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

Euripides

33.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

36.

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

37.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

Twain, Mark

40.

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

Balzac, Honore De

41.

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

42.

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.

43.

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

Dolores Huerta

44.

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

45.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

46.

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

47.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

48.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

49.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

50.

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