Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

Forgotten is forgiven.

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

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

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

Bible

10.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

11.

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

Real Live Preacher

12.

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

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

Proverb

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

Auson

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

Twain, Mark

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

Lauter

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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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.

27.

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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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 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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God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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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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It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

33.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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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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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Dolores Huerta

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To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

Thomas Szasz

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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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A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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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

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

45.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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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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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.