Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

- Franklin P. Adams

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

Proverb

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gibran, Kahlil

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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

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

Mitchell, Margaret

10.

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

11.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the na?ve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Szasz, Thomas

12.

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

Proverb, Spanish

13.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

14.

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

Boese, Paul

15.

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

16.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

17.

Forgotten is forgiven.

18.

Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine.

Camus, Albert

19.

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

20.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

21.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

22.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Heine, Heinrich

26.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

27.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

28.

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

Sophocles

29.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

30.

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

Bacon, Francis

31.

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

32.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

33.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

34.

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

35.

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

Chapin, Edwin Hubbel

37.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

38.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

39.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

40.

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

41.

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

Augustine, St.

42.

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

Brown, Les

43.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

44.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

45.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

46.

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

47.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Real Live Preacher