Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Camus, Albert

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

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

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

Wilde, Oscar

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

10.

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

Edwards, Tryon

11.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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

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

Mahatma Gandhi

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Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

15.

To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Pope, Alexander

16.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

17.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

18.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

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Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Auson

21.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

22.

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

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Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

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It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

25.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

26.

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

Dolores Huerta

27.

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

Real Live Preacher

28.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

29.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

30.

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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There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

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

Bible

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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

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

Brown, Les

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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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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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God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

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To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

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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

42.

Forgotten is forgiven.

43.

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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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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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