Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Lawana Blackwell

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Mitchell, Margaret

10.

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

11.

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

Lauter

12.

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

Balzac, Honore De

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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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

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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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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

19.

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

Edwards, Tryon

20.

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

Proverb, Spanish

21.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

25.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

Bacon, Francis

27.

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Harris, Sidney J.

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

Auson

32.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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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

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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

35.

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

Sophocles

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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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

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

Higginson, Ella

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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

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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