Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bible

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Mitchell, Margaret

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Brown, Les

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

Bible

12.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

13.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

15.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

16.

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

17.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

20.

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

Twain, Mark

21.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

22.

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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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

24.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

25.

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

26.

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

27.

Forgotten is forgiven.

28.

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

Boese, Paul

29.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

30.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

31.

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

Dolores Huerta

32.

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

Auson

33.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

34.

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

Bacon, Francis

35.

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

36.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

39.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

40.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

41.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

42.

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

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

Euripides

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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 is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

49.

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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God has a big eraser.