Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Boese, Paul

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.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

4.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

5.

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

6.

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

Lawana Blackwell

7.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

8.

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

Lawana Blackwell

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

12.

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

Augustine, St.

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Sophocles

16.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

17.

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

Auson

18.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Balzac, Honore De

19.

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

20.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

21.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

22.

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

Euripides

23.

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

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

26.

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

27.

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

Thomas Szasz

28.

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

Proverb, Spanish

29.

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

Proverb

30.

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

Twain, Mark

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

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

Real Live Preacher

33.

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

34.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

35.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

36.

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

Edwards, Tryon

37.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

38.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

39.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

40.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

41.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

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

44.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

47.

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

Higginson, Ella

48.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

49.

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

50.

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.