Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Euripides

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Edwards, Tryon

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

10.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

11.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

12.

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 oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

15.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

17.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

18.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

19.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

21.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Bible

28.

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

30.

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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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

32.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

33.

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

34.

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

Sophocles

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

Auson

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I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams