Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

I never forgive, but I always forget.

- Balfour, Arthur James

Best Quotes about 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

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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Euripides

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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.

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

Auson

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

Camus, Albert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

11.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

12.

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Twain, Mark

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

24.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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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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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

28.

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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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

31.

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

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Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men.

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

Sophocles

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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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Forgotten is forgiven.