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

1.

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

Dolores Huerta

2.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

3.

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

Boese, Paul

4.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

5.

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

6.

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

Szasz, Thomas

7.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

8.

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

Wilde, Oscar

9.

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

Balzac, Honore De

10.

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

Bible

11.

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

Thomas Szasz

12.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

16.

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

17.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

18.

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

19.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

22.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Heine, Heinrich

26.

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

Auson

27.

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.

28.

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

Bible

29.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

30.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

31.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

32.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

33.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

34.

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

35.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

38.

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

39.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

40.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

41.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Mahatma Gandhi

42.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.