Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Lawana Blackwell

2.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

3.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

4.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

5.

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

6.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

7.

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

Auson

8.

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

Augustine, St.

9.

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

Bible

10.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

11.

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

12.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

13.

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

14.

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

Bible

15.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

16.

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

Lauter

17.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

18.

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

Bible

19.

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

Edwards, Tryon

20.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

21.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

22.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

23.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

24.

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

Boese, Paul

25.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

26.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Higginson, Ella

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Dolores Huerta

30.

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

Brown, Les

31.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

32.

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

33.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

34.

Forgotten is forgiven.

35.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

36.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

37.

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

Heine, Heinrich

38.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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.

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Augustine, St.

41.

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

Proverb, Spanish

42.

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

43.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

44.

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

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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

46.

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

47.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

48.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

49.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.