Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Forgotten is forgiven.

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

Boese, Paul

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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 is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

10.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

13.

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

Bible

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

Sophocles

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

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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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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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

27.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

29.

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

Bible

30.

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

32.

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

Dolores Huerta

33.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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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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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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Lawana Blackwell

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Twain, Mark

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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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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