Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Brown, Les

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

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

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

Bible

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

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Camus, Albert

10.

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.

11.

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

12.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

13.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

14.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

15.

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

16.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Real Live Preacher

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

23.

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

Sophocles

24.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

25.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Szasz, Thomas

26.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

27.

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

28.

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

Lawana Blackwell

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

32.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

33.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

34.

If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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

36.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

37.

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

Dolores Huerta

38.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

39.

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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

41.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

42.

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

Proverb

43.

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

44.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

45.

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

Boese, Paul

46.

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

Thomas Szasz

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.