Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

- Juoy

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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.

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

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

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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

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

Sophocles

10.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Lauter

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

Euripides

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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.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Thomas Szasz

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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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.

Real Live Preacher

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Brown, Les

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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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

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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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

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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

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

Szasz, Thomas

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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

Auson

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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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

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A man must learn to forgive himself.