Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Bacon, Francis

2.

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

Edwards, Tryon

3.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

4.

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

5.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

6.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

7.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

8.

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

9.

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

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

11.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

13.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

14.

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

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.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

21.

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

Bible

22.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

23.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

24.

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

25.

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

Wilde, Oscar

26.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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.

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

29.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

Augustine, St.

31.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

32.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

33.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

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

Auson

35.

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

Balzac, Honore De

36.

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

Thomas Szasz

37.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

38.

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

Euripides

39.

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

Real Live Preacher

40.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

41.

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

Proverb

42.

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

43.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

44.

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

Boese, Paul

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

47.

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

48.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

49.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

50.

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