Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Never repeat old grievances.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

Wilde, Oscar

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Euripides

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

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

11.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

12.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

13.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

14.

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

Bible

15.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb

20.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

21.

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

Bible

22.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

23.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

25.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

26.

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

27.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

28.

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

Lauter

29.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

35.

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

Brown, Les

36.

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

Augustine, St.

37.

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

Higginson, Ella

38.

Forgotten is forgiven.

39.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Szasz, Thomas

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

Heine, Heinrich

42.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

43.

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

Edwards, Tryon

44.

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

45.

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

Bacon, Francis

46.

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

Boese, Paul

47.

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

48.

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

49.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Lawana Blackwell

50.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb