Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

2.

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

3.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

4.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

5.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

6.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

7.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

8.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

9.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

10.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

11.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

12.

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

Dolores Huerta

13.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

14.

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

15.

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

Euripides

16.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

17.

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

Real Live Preacher

18.

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

19.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

20.

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.

21.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

22.

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

Balzac, Honore De

23.

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

Brown, Les

24.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

25.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

26.

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Bible

28.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

29.

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

Heine, Heinrich

30.

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

31.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

32.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

33.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

34.

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

Camus, Albert

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Forgotten is forgiven.

38.

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

Bible

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Sophocles

42.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

43.

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

Thomas Szasz

44.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

45.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

46.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

47.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

48.

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

49.

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

Proverb, Spanish

50.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings