Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Lawana Blackwell

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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

Proverb

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

Shaw, George Bernard

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

10.

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

11.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

12.

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

Lawana Blackwell

13.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Bacon, Francis

16.

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

Balzac, Honore De

17.

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

Brown, Les

18.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

19.

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

20.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

21.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

22.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

23.

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

24.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

25.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

26.

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

Euripides

27.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

31.

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

32.

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

Boese, Paul

33.

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

Lauter

34.

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

Bible

35.

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

Edwards, Tryon

36.

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

Augustine, St.

37.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

38.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

39.

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

40.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

41.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

42.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

43.

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.

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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

45.

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

Lawana Blackwell

46.

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

Auson

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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

48.

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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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

50.

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

Harris, Sidney J.