Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is God's command.

- Luther, Martin

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Proverb

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

Bible

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

Camus, Albert

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

13.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Brown, Les

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

19.

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

Euripides

20.

Forgotten is forgiven.

21.

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

Twain, Mark

22.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

23.

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

24.

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

Heine, Heinrich

25.

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

Szasz, Thomas

26.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

27.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

28.

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

29.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

30.

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

31.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

34.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

35.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

36.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

37.

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

Real Live Preacher

38.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

39.

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

40.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

41.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

42.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

43.

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