Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bible

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

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Brown, Les

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

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

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

10.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

11.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

12.

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.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

16.

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

Boese, Paul

18.

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

19.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

22.

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

Dolores Huerta

23.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

24.

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

Wilde, Oscar

25.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Auson

27.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Lauter

31.

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

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

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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