Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.

Mitchell, Margaret

2.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

3.

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

Balzac, Honore De

4.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

5.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

6.

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

7.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

8.

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

9.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

14.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

16.

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Richter, Jean Paul

17.

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

18.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

19.

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

20.

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

Lawana Blackwell

21.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

22.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

23.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

24.

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

25.

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

Augustine, St.

26.

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

Auson

27.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

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

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

32.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

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

Twain, Mark

36.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

37.

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

38.

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

Lauter

39.

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

40.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

41.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

42.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

43.

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

Dolores Huerta

44.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, Spanish

47.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

48.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

49.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.