Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

A man must learn to forgive himself.

- Ficke, Arthur Davison

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Euripides

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Dolores Huerta

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

Auson

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

10.

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

Bacon, Francis

11.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

12.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

13.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Edwards, Tryon

16.

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

Real Live Preacher

17.

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

18.

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

Lawana Blackwell

19.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

21.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

22.

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

23.

Forgotten is forgiven.

24.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

25.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

26.

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

27.

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

Thomas Szasz

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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

29.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

30.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

31.

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

32.

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

Proverb

33.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

34.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

38.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

39.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

Lauter

41.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

42.

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

43.

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

Bible

44.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

45.

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

Wilde, Oscar

46.

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

Camus, Albert

47.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Proverb, Spanish

49.

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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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison