Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Brown, Les

2.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

3.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

4.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

5.

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

Augustine, St.

6.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Edwards, Tryon

14.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

15.

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

Higginson, Ella

16.

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

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

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

Auson

19.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

20.

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

Boese, Paul

21.

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

Wilde, Oscar

22.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

23.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

24.

And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

25.

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

26.

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

Thomas Szasz

27.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

28.

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

29.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

30.

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

Sophocles

31.

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

32.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

35.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

36.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

37.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

39.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

40.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

41.

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.

42.

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

Balzac, Honore De

43.

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

44.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

45.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

Twain, Mark

47.

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

Lawana Blackwell

48.

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

49.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

50.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler