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

1.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

4.

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

Sophocles

5.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

6.

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

7.

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

8.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

9.

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

11.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

Camus, Albert

13.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Real Live Preacher

18.

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

Dolores Huerta

19.

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

Auson

20.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

21.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

22.

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

Proverb

23.

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

Bacon, Francis

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

26.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

27.

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

28.

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

Szasz, Thomas

29.

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

30.

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

31.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

32.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

33.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

34.

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Augustine, St.

39.

Forgotten is forgiven.

40.

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

Thomas Szasz

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Brown, Les

44.

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

Boese, Paul

45.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.