Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Augustine, St.

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bible

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Sophocles

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

11.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

14.

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.

15.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

16.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

17.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

18.

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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

21.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

22.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

23.

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

Real Live Preacher

24.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

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

Higginson, Ella

26.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

27.

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

Brown, Les

28.

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

Heine, Heinrich

29.

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

30.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

31.

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

Dolores Huerta

32.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

Euripides

35.

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

Camus, Albert

36.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Twain, Mark

39.

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

Proverb

40.

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

41.

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

Thomas Szasz

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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

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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

44.

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

45.

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

Augustine, St.

46.

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

47.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

48.

Forgotten is forgiven.

49.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams