Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

God will forgive me, that's his business.

- Heine, Heinrich

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Balzac, Honore De

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Sophocles

10.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

11.

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

Twain, Mark

12.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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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

14.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

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

Lawana Blackwell

16.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Auson

18.

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

Thomas Szasz

19.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

20.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

Proverb

22.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

23.

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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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

26.

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

Bible

27.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

28.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

29.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

30.

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

Edwards, Tryon

31.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

33.

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

Bacon, Francis

34.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

35.

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

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Boese, Paul

38.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Higginson, Ella

42.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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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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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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

46.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Brown, Les