Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Bible

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

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

Augustine, St.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

10.

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

Twain, Mark

11.

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

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.

Twain, Mark

14.

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

Lawana Blackwell

15.

Forgotten is forgiven.

16.

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

Proverb

17.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

18.

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

Euripides

19.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

20.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

21.

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

Bible

22.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

23.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

24.

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

25.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

26.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

27.

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

28.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

29.

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

Lauter

30.

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.

31.

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

Wilde, Oscar

32.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

33.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

34.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

35.

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

36.

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

Higginson, Ella

37.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

38.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

39.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Szasz, Thomas

40.

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

41.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

42.

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

Sophocles

43.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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.