Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

2.

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

Bible

3.

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

Lawana Blackwell

4.

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

5.

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

6.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

7.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

8.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

9.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

10.

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

11.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

12.

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

Auson

13.

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

Euripides

14.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

18.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

20.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

21.

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

Edwards, Tryon

22.

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

Balzac, Honore De

23.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

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

Heine, Heinrich

25.

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

26.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

27.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

28.

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

29.

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

Brown, Les

30.

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

Boese, Paul

31.

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

Camus, Albert

32.

Forgotten is forgiven.

33.

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

Twain, Mark

34.

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

Thomas Szasz

35.

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

36.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

37.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

38.

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

Lawana Blackwell

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

43.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

44.

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