Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

- Josh Billings

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

2.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

3.

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

Lauter

4.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

5.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

6.

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

Dolores Huerta

7.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

8.

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

Sophocles

9.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

13.

Forgotten is forgiven.

14.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

15.

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.

16.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

17.

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

18.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

19.

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

Brown, Les

20.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

21.

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

22.

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

Euripides

23.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

24.

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

Auson

25.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

26.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

27.

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

Thomas Szasz

28.

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

29.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

30.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

31.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

32.

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

Augustine, St.

33.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

34.

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

Real Live Preacher

35.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

36.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

37.

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

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

41.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb

44.

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

Balzac, Honore De

45.

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

Szasz, Thomas

46.

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.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

47.

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

Lawana Blackwell

48.

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

49.

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

Camus, Albert

50.

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