Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgotten is forgiven.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Lauter

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Sophocles

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

Confucius

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

Augustine, St.

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

10.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

13.

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

Higginson, Ella

14.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

16.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Bible

20.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

21.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

23.

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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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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Boese, Paul

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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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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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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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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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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

34.

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 those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

36.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Proverb

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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

43.

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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Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Dietrich, Marlene

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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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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

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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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