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

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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

2.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

3.

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

4.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

5.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

6.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

7.

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

Proverb, Spanish

8.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

9.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

10.

Forgotten is forgiven.

11.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

12.

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

13.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

14.

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

Camus, Albert

15.

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

Balzac, Honore De

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb

18.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

19.

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

20.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

21.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

22.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

23.

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

Bible

24.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

25.

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

Twain, Mark

26.

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

27.

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

Edwards, Tryon

28.

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

Brown, Les

29.

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

30.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

31.

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

Euripides

32.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

33.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

34.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

35.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

Lawana Blackwell

38.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

39.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Gibran, Kahlil

40.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

41.

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

Higginson, Ella

42.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

43.

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

44.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Heine, Heinrich

46.

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

47.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

48.

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

Lawana Blackwell

49.

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

50.

Forgive those who have hurt you.