Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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

Camus, Albert

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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

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

Heine, Heinrich

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

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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Forgotten is forgiven.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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

Twain, Mark

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Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Boese, Paul

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

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

Lawana Blackwell

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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

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Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

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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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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Auson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

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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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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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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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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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

Thomas Szasz