Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

- Hubbard, Kin

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

2.

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

3.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

4.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

5.

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

Wilde, Oscar

6.

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

Camus, Albert

7.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

8.

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

Heine, Heinrich

9.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

10.

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

11.

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

Sophocles

12.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

13.

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

Balzac, Honore De

14.

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

Twain, Mark

15.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

16.

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

Boese, Paul

17.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

20.

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

Augustine, St.

21.

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

Edwards, Tryon

22.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

23.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

24.

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

25.

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

Thomas Szasz

26.

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

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

29.

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

Proverb, Spanish

30.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

31.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

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

33.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

34.

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

Lawana Blackwell

35.

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

Lawana Blackwell

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.

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

Proverb

38.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

39.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

Forgotten is forgiven.

48.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

49.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy