Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

- Francis of Assisi, St.

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Boese, Paul

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Euripides

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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

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

Higginson, Ella

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Camus, Albert

10.

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

Dolores Huerta

11.

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

Proverb

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

15.

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

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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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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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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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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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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

21.

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

Lauter

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Real Live Preacher

25.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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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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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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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Harris, Sidney J.

30.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Wilde, Oscar

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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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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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

47.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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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