Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

Forgotten is forgiven.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Bierce, Ambrose

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

10.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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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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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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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Euripides

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

Augustine, St.

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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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Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Bible

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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

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

Auson

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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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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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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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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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

Boese, Paul