Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Gibran, Kahlil

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

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.

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

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

Lauter

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

Sophocles

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

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

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Hubbard, Kin

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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

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

Gibran, Kahlil

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

Real Live Preacher

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

Heine, Heinrich

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Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

18.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

19.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

20.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

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

Euripides

22.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

25.

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

Dolores Huerta

26.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

27.

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

28.

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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We pardon to the extent that we love.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Dietrich, Marlene

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Forgotten is forgiven.

33.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

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

Bible

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What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

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

Proverb, Spanish

40.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

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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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My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. [Job 14:17]

Bible

43.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

44.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

45.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

47.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

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

Richter, Jean Paul

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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

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira