Motivational Quotes

Repentance

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

- Nash, Ogden

Best Quotes about Repentance

Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING IN THE MUCK IS NOT THE BEST WAY OF GETTING CLEAN.

Huxley, Aldous

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

Rousseau, Jean Jacques

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

Byron, Lord

Most people repent their sins by thanking God they ain't so wicked as their neighbors.

Billings, Josh

Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

Browne, Sir Thomas

But with morning cool repentance came.

Scott, Sir Walter

The wolf was sick, he vowed a monk to be: But when he got well, a wolf once more was he.

Brower, Walter

It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

Franklin, Benjamin

Repentance is accepted remorse.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

Bradley, Francis H.

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Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

Macaulay, J. C.

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He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.

Quarles, Francis

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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Nash, Ogden

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Bad men are full of repentance.

Aristotle

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True repentance is to cease from sinning.

Milan, Ambrose of

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Remorse is impotence, it will sin again. Only repentance is strong, it can end everything.

Miller, Henry

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Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

Fuller, Thomas

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He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

Seneca

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It is much easier to repent of sins that we have committed than to repent of those that we intend to commit.

Billings, Josh

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Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Beecher, Henry Ward

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Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.

Beecher, Willard

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True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

Smith, Robert

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Repentance won't cure mischief.

Proverb, Gaelic

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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Carlyle, Thomas

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People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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One may disavow and disclaim vices that surprise us, and whereto our passions transport us; but those which by long habits are rooted in a strong and powerful will are not subject to contradiction. Repentance is but a denying of our will, and an opposition of our fantasies.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De