Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Edwards, Tryon

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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

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

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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

10.

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

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Brown, Les

14.

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

Lauter

15.

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

16.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

17.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

18.

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

Harris, Sidney J.

19.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

20.

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

21.

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

Proverb

22.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

23.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

24.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

25.

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

26.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

27.

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

Bacon, Francis

28.

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

Wilde, Oscar

29.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

30.

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

Sophocles

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

Forgotten is forgiven.

34.

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

Augustine, St.

35.

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

Boese, Paul

36.

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

37.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

38.

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

39.

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

Dolores Huerta

40.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

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.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

43.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

44.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

45.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

46.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

47.

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

Balzac, Honore De

48.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

49.

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

Edwards, Tryon