Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bible

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Camus, Albert

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

Bierce, Ambrose

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

10.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

11.

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

12.

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

Edwards, Tryon

13.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

14.

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.

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it

Twain, Mark

17.

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

Dolores Huerta

18.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

20.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

21.

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

Heine, Heinrich

22.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

23.

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

Lauter

24.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

25.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

26.

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

27.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

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

Lawana Blackwell

30.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

32.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

33.

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

34.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

35.

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

36.

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

37.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

38.

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

Higginson, Ella

39.

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

Auson

40.

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

Boese, Paul

41.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

42.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

43.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Brown, Les

48.

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

Szasz, Thomas

49.

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

Proverb, Spanish

50.

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