Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Sophocles

2.

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

Wilde, Oscar

3.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

4.

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

Lawana Blackwell

5.

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

6.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

7.

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

Bible

8.

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

Euripides

9.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

11.

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

Augustine, St.

12.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

13.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

14.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Lauter

17.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

18.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

19.

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

20.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

21.

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

22.

Forgotten is forgiven.

23.

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

Lawana Blackwell

24.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

25.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

26.

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

Heine, Heinrich

27.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

28.

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

Twain, Mark

29.

And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32]

Bible

30.

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

Dolores Huerta

31.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

32.

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

33.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

34.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

35.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Balzac, Honore De

38.

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

Proverb

39.

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

Auson

40.

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

Brown, Les

41.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

46.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

47.

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

48.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

50.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb