Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Beecher, Henry Ward

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

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

Camus, Albert

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Brown, Les

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

10.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

11.

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

12.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

13.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

14.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

15.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

16.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

17.

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

18.

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

Sophocles

19.

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

20.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

21.

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

Lauter

22.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

25.

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

26.

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

Thomas Szasz

27.

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

Real Live Preacher

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

30.

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

31.

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

Lawana Blackwell

32.

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

Augustine, St.

33.

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

Szasz, Thomas

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

36.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

37.

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

Bible

38.

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

39.

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

40.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

41.

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

Twain, Mark

42.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

43.

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

Higginson, Ella

44.

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

46.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

48.

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

Edwards, Tryon

49.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler