Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

- Norman Cousins

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

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

Boese, Paul

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Lauter

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

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

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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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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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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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Brown, Les

14.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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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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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

17.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

18.

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

Higginson, Ella

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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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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

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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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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

37.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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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 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 many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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]

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Auson

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

Euripides

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

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