Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

2.

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

Brown, Les

3.

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

Heine, Heinrich

4.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

5.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

6.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Proverb

10.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

11.

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

Bible

12.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

13.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

14.

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

Auson

15.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

18.

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

19.

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

Lawana Blackwell

20.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

21.

Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.

Confucius

22.

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

Balzac, Honore De

23.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

24.

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

Camus, Albert

25.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

26.

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

Lawana Blackwell

27.

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

Edwards, Tryon

28.

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

Bacon, Francis

29.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

30.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

31.

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

Augustine, St.

32.

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

Boese, Paul

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

34.

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

Proverb, Spanish

35.

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

Real Live Preacher

36.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

37.

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

38.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

39.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

40.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

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

42.

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

Higginson, Ella

43.

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

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

45.

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.

46.

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

Euripides

47.

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

48.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

49.

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

50.

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