Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

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

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

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

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

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Euripides

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

13.

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

Sophocles

14.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Deluzy, Madame Dorothe

15.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

William Shakespeare

16.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

17.

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

Real Live Preacher

18.

It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

Francis of Assisi, St.

19.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

20.

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

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

22.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

23.

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

Brown, Les

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.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

26.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

Bible

29.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

30.

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

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

Twain, Mark

32.

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

Bible

33.

It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission.

34.

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

Lauter

35.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

36.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

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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

39.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

40.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

41.

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

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

Auson

43.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

44.

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

Dolores Huerta

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