Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bible

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Auson

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

Gibran, Kahlil

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

10.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

11.

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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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

13.

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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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

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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lauter

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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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

22.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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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.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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.

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

Boese, Paul

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

Harris, Sidney J.

31.

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

32.

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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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

34.

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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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

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

Brown, Les

39.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Camus, Albert

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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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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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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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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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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.