Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Jampolsky, Gerald G.

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

2.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

3.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

4.

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

5.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

6.

Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

7.

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

Proverb

8.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

9.

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

Lawana Blackwell

10.

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

11.

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

Brown, Les

12.

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

Heine, Heinrich

13.

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

Boese, Paul

14.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

15.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

16.

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

17.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

18.

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

19.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

20.

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

Sophocles

21.

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

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

28.

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

29.

Forgotten is forgiven.

30.

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

Lauter

31.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

34.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

35.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.