Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

- Norman Cousins

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

Mahatma Gandhi

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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

10.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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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

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Camus, Albert

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

Augustine, St.

15.

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sophocles

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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

Lawana Blackwell

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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

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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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Dietrich, Marlene

23.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Bible

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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

32.

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

33.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Twain, Mark

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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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

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Dolores Huerta

43.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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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

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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

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

Boese, Paul

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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Whoever approaches Me walking, I will come to him running; and he who meets Me with sins equivalent to the whole world, I will greet him with forgiveness equal to it.

Al-massabaih, Mishkat