Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Boese, Paul

2.

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

Brown, Les

3.

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

Proverb

4.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

5.

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

6.

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

Proverb, Spanish

7.

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

Euripides

8.

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

Thomas Szasz

9.

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

11.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

Marden, Orison Swett

14.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

15.

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

16.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Bacon, Francis

22.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

23.

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

Augustine, St.

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

26.

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

Auson

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

29.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

30.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

31.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

32.

Forgotten is forgiven.

33.

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

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

36.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

Edwards, Tryon

38.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

39.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

40.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

41.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

43.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

44.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Szasz, Thomas

45.

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

Twain, Mark

46.

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

47.

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

Bible

48.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

49.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

50.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.