Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Twain, Mark

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

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

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Gibran, Kahlil

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

10.

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

Lawana Blackwell

11.

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

Szasz, Thomas

12.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

13.

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

Thomas Szasz

14.

Forgotten is forgiven.

15.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

16.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Bible

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

20.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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

Bible

25.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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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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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Lauter

29.

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

Dolores Huerta

30.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

41.

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

42.

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

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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

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

Boese, Paul

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

Euripides

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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh