Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

1.

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

Boese, Paul

2.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

3.

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

Balzac, Honore De

4.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

5.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

6.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

7.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

8.

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

Proverb

9.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

10.

Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak.

Higginson, Ella

11.

Never repeat old grievances.

Proverb

12.

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

13.

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

Proverb, Spanish

14.

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

15.

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

Szasz, Thomas

16.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

17.

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

18.

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

Euripides

19.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich

20.

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.

21.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

22.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

Thomas Szasz

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Lauter

26.

Forgotten is forgiven.

27.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

Balfour, Arthur James

28.

God has a big eraser.

Zeoli, Billy

29.

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

30.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

31.

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

Heine, Heinrich

32.

We easily pardon an offense we had part in.

Juoy

33.

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

Bible

34.

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

35.

Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.

Real Live Preacher

36.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

37.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

38.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

39.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Ficke, Arthur Davison

40.

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

41.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Auson

45.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

46.

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

Wilde, Oscar

47.

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

Dolores Huerta

48.

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

49.

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

Bible

50.

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

Real Live Preacher