Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

- Diana, Princess of Wales

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Real Live Preacher

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

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bible

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Bible

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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

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Edwards, Tryon

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Brown, Les

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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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

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Sophocles

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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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

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

Bacon, Francis

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

34.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

35.

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

Bible

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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

Higginson, Ella

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Twain, Mark

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

Auson

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

Augustine, St.

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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

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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

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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

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe