Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

2.

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

Dolores Huerta

3.

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

Augustine, St.

4.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

5.

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

6.

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

Sophocles

7.

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

Edwards, Tryon

8.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

9.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

10.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

11.

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

Heine, Heinrich

12.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

13.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

14.

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

Boese, Paul

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.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Proverb

19.

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

Auson

20.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

21.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

23.

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

Lauter

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

26.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

27.

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

Bible

28.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Bible

31.

Forgotten is forgiven.

32.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

33.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

34.

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

Higginson, Ella

35.

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

36.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

37.

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

Szasz, Thomas

38.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

39.

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

40.

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

Lawana Blackwell

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

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

43.

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

Camus, Albert

44.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

46.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Real Live Preacher

48.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

49.

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