Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Proverb

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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Forgotten is forgiven.

11.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Boese, Paul

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

Sophocles

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No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Bible

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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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Brown, Les

22.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Euripides

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Proverb, Spanish

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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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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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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.

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