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

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

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

10.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Lawana Blackwell

18.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

20.

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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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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

Proverb

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

Auson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Augustine, St.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

Brown, Les

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

41.

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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