Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Mitchell, Margaret

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Auson

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Wilde, Oscar

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.

10.

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

Proverb

11.

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

Balzac, Honore De

12.

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

13.

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

Dolores Huerta

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Euripides

19.

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

20.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

21.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

22.

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

23.

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

Camus, Albert

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Forgotten is forgiven.

25.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

26.

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

Boese, Paul

27.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

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

Thomas Szasz

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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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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

33.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

34.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

35.

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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

37.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

38.

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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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

40.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

41.

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

Bible

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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

43.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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

46.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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