Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bacon, Francis

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

Real Live Preacher

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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

Auson

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

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Lawana Blackwell

14.

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

Heine, Heinrich

15.

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

16.

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

Camus, Albert

17.

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

Higginson, Ella

18.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

19.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

20.

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

Thomas Szasz

21.

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

Augustine, St.

22.

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

23.

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

24.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

25.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

29.

Forgotten is forgiven.

30.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

31.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

32.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

33.

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

Szasz, Thomas

34.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

35.

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

36.

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

37.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

38.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

39.

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

40.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

41.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

43.

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

Lawana Blackwell

44.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

48.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

49.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.