Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

2.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

3.

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

4.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

5.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

6.

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

7.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

8.

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

Twain, Mark

9.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

10.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

11.

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

12.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

13.

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

14.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

15.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

16.

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

Real Live Preacher

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Bacon, Francis

19.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

20.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

21.

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

Proverb, Spanish

22.

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

Heine, Heinrich

23.

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

Proverb

24.

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

25.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

26.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

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

Augustine, St.

29.

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

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

32.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

33.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

34.

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

Dolores Huerta

35.

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

36.

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

Edwards, Tryon

37.

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

38.

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

Higginson, Ella

39.

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

40.

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Lawana Blackwell

41.

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

42.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

43.

In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7]

Bible

44.

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

Euripides

45.

Forgotten is forgiven.

46.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

47.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

48.

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

49.

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

50.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre