Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Bacon, Francis

2.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Lauter

3.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

14.

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

Wilde, Oscar

15.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Proverb, Spanish

17.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

18.

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

Twain, Mark

19.

Forgotten is forgiven.

20.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

21.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

22.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

23.

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher

24.

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

25.

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

26.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

27.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

28.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

29.

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

Balzac, Honore De

30.

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

Sophocles

31.

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

Euripides

32.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

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

Auson

36.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

37.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

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

39.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

40.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

41.

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.

42.

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