Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Higginson, Ella

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

Sophocles

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

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

Twain, Mark

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

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.

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

Heine, Heinrich

11.

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

Lawana Blackwell

12.

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

Augustine, St.

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

14.

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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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

16.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

17.

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

Proverb

18.

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

Proverb, Spanish

19.

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

Thomas Szasz

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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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

25.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

27.

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

Balzac, Honore De

28.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

29.

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

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

Boese, Paul

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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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

39.

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

Dolores Huerta

40.

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

Auson

41.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

42.

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

Bacon, Francis

43.

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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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

45.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

46.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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God will forgive me, that's his business.