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

Balzac, Honore De

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 is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Heine, Heinrich

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

10.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

11.

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

12.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

13.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

14.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

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

Higginson, Ella

16.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

17.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

18.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

19.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

20.

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

Brown, Les

21.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bierce, Ambrose

23.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

24.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

25.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

26.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

Twain, Mark

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Lauter

34.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Harris, Sidney J.

37.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Lawana Blackwell

40.

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

Thomas Szasz

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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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

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

Boese, Paul

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