Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Boese, Paul

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Twain, Mark

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Boese, Paul

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

Thomas Szasz

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

11.

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

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

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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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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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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

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

17.

Forgotten is forgiven.

18.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

19.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

20.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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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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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Sophocles

24.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

25.

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

Euripides

26.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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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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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

30.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

31.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

33.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

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

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

Lauter

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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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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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Edwards, Tryon

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.

Higginson, Ella

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

Proverb

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