Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Never repeat old grievances.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Euripides

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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

Lawana Blackwell

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

Heine, Heinrich

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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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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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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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you.

Proverb

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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

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

Sophocles

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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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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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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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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

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

Wilde, Oscar

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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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A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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

Thomas Szasz

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

Bible

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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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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Brown, Les

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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

Bible

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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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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

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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

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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.

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