Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Twain, Mark

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

Harris, Sidney J.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

Bible

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

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.

Beecher, Henry Ward

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Higginson, Ella

11.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

12.

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

13.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

14.

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

15.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

16.

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

Augustine, St.

17.

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

18.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

19.

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

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Camus, Albert

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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

25.

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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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

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Forgotten is forgiven.

28.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

29.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

30.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

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

Proverb

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

36.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

37.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

39.

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

Real Live Preacher

40.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Auson

43.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

44.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

46.

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

Lawana Blackwell

47.

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

48.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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