Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Bierce, Ambrose

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Lawana Blackwell

2.

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

3.

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

Heine, Heinrich

4.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

5.

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

Proverb, Spanish

6.

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

7.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

8.

Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

Proverb

9.

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

10.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

11.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

15.

Forgotten is forgiven.

16.

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

Euripides

17.

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

18.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

20.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

21.

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

22.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

23.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Edwards, Tryon

26.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

27.

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

Lauter

28.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

29.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

30.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

31.

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

Boese, Paul

32.

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

Bacon, Francis

33.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

34.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

35.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

36.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

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

Balzac, Honore De

39.

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

Bible

40.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

41.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

42.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

43.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

44.

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

Szasz, Thomas

45.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

46.

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

47.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

48.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

49.

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

50.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings