Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Boese, Paul

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Lawana Blackwell

2.

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

3.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

4.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

5.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

6.

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

Auson

7.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

12.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

13.

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

Wilde, Oscar

14.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

15.

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

Dolores Huerta

16.

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

Sophocles

17.

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

18.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

19.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

20.

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

21.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

22.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

24.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

25.

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

Bible

26.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

27.

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

Bible

28.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

29.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

30.

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

Augustine, St.

31.

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

Boese, Paul

32.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

33.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

35.

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

Real Live Preacher

36.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

37.

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

Lauter

38.

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

Bacon, Francis

39.

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

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

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

42.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

43.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy