Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Proverb, Spanish

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Heine, Heinrich

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Boese, Paul

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

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

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

10.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Auson

13.

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

14.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

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

Brown, Les

16.

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

Twain, Mark

17.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Bible

19.

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

20.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

21.

Forgotten is forgiven.

22.

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

23.

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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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

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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

26.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

27.

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

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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

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

Bible

30.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

31.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

Lauter

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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

35.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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