Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Balzac, Honore De

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Mitchell, Margaret

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Auson

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

Bible

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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 is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

11.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

Augustine, St.

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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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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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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

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

Camus, Albert

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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

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

Edwards, Tryon

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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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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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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

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

Boese, Paul

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Brown, Les

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

Twain, Mark

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

Thomas Szasz

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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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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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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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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I never forgive, but I always forget.