Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Euripides

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Augustine, St.

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

Dolores Huerta

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Szasz, Thomas

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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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

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Boese, Paul

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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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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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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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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Twain, Mark

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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

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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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

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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

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

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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.

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Auson

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Thomas Szasz

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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

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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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Brown, Les

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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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

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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

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

Higginson, Ella