Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Bacon, Francis

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

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

Brown, Les

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

13.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

14.

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

Bible

15.

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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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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Forgotten is forgiven.

18.

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

19.

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

Proverb

20.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

22.

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

Balzac, Honore De

23.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Bible

25.

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

Euripides

26.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Real Live Preacher

28.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

29.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

30.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

31.

If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith.

Ingersoll, Robert Green

32.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

33.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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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

35.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

36.

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

37.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

38.

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

Bible

39.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

40.

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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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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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

43.

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

Sophocles

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

46.

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

47.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Auson

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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.

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