Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Auson

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bible

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

Proverb, Spanish

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Twain, Mark

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

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

10.

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

Augustine, St.

11.

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

12.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

13.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

14.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

15.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

18.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

20.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

21.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

22.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

23.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

24.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

25.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Lawana Blackwell

26.

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

Heine, Heinrich

27.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

28.

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

29.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

30.

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

Brown, Les

32.

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 err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

35.

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

Real Live Preacher

37.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

39.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

40.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

46.

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

Auson

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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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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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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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