Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32]

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Real Live Preacher

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

12.

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

13.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Bacon, Francis

18.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

21.

Forgotten is forgiven.

22.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

24.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

25.

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

Sophocles

26.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

27.

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

28.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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

30.

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

Euripides

31.

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

32.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

33.

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

Proverb, Spanish

34.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

35.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

36.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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.

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

Auson

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

41.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

42.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

43.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

45.

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

46.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

47.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

48.

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

49.

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

Edwards, Tryon