Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

- Norman Cousins

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Auson

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

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Bacon, Francis

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Augustine, St.

10.

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

Sophocles

11.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

12.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

17.

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

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb

22.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

24.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Thomas Szasz

26.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

27.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

28.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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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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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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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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

33.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Dietrich, Marlene

35.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Lauter

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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

Lawana Blackwell

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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

49.

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

Dolores Huerta

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander