Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Brown, Les

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

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

Bible

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

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Real Live Preacher

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

10.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

11.

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

Dolores Huerta

12.

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

13.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

14.

Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

17.

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

18.

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Balzac, Honore De

19.

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

Edwards, Tryon

20.

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

Gibran, Kahlil

21.

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

Brown, Les

22.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

23.

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

24.

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

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

26.

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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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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

31.

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

Szasz, Thomas

32.

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Boese, Paul

37.

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

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

40.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

41.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

42.

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

43.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

44.

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

Camus, Albert

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.