Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Thomas Szasz

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

Sophocles

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.

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

Auson

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Forgotten is forgiven.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

10.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

Boese, Paul

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

Lawana Blackwell

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

17.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

21.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

22.

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

Lauter

23.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

25.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

26.

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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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

28.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

29.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

30.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

31.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

32.

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

33.

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

Dolores Huerta

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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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

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

41.

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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