Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Ingersoll, Robert Green

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

12.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

13.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

14.

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

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

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

17.

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

Thomas Szasz

18.

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

Boese, Paul

19.

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

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

22.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

25.

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

Heine, Heinrich

26.

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

27.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

28.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

29.

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

Bacon, Francis

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb

32.

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

33.

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

Auson

34.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

35.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

36.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

37.

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

Augustine, St.

38.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

39.

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

Real Live Preacher

40.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

41.

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

Wilde, Oscar

42.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

43.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

44.

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

45.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

46.

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

47.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

48.

I never forgive, but I always forget.