Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Dietrich, Marlene

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Thomas Szasz

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

10.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

11.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

12.

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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Forgotten is forgiven.

14.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Brown, Les

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

17.

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Twain, Mark

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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

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

Lauter

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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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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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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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Bible

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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

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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.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Euripides

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

Proverb