Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Richter, Jean Paul

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Bible

Forgotten is forgiven.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

10.

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

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

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

Euripides

13.

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

Auson

14.

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

Bacon, Francis

15.

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

Real Live Preacher

16.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

18.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

19.

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

20.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Edwards, Tryon

22.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.

Higginson, Ella

25.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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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

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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

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

31.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

32.

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

33.

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

34.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

36.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

37.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Proverb

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

44.

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Proverb, Spanish

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