Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Sophocles

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Proverb

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Euripides

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Camus, Albert

10.

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

11.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

12.

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

Balzac, Honore De

13.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

14.

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

15.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

16.

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

Bible

17.

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

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

20.

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

Higginson, Ella

21.

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

Boese, Paul

22.

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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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

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

29.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

30.

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

Brown, Les

31.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Real Live Preacher

34.

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

Thomas Szasz

35.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

36.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

37.

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

Auson

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

Lauter

40.

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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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

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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

43.

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

Sophocles

44.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

45.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

46.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

47.

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

Bible

48.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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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Forgotten is forgiven.