Motivational Quotes

Forgiveness

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

- Harris, Sidney J.

Best Quotes about Forgiveness

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.

Proverb

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

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

Dolores Huerta

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

Bible

The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.

Lawana Blackwell

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

Camus, Albert

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

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

Twain, Mark

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

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.

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

12.

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

Bacon, Francis

13.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Gandhi, Indira

14.

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

Sophocles

15.

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

Shaw, Henry Wheeler

16.

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

17.

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

Bible

18.

Forgiveness is the oil of relationships.

Mcdowell, Josh

19.

Forgiveness is God's command.

Luther, Martin

20.

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

Dietrich, Marlene

21.

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

22.

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

Szasz, Thomas

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.

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

Ausonius

25.

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

26.

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

Lauter

27.

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

Augustine, St.

28.

To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.

Franklin P. Adams

29.

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

Mitchell, Margaret

30.

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G.

31.

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

Richter, Jean Paul

32.

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.

33.

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

Bierce, Ambrose

34.

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

Beecher, Henry Ward

35.

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

Mahatma Gandhi

36.

What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

Dudek, Louis

37.

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

Higginson, Ella

38.

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

Auson

39.

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

Heine, Heinrich

40.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

Corneille, Pierre

41.

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green

45.

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

Euripides

46.

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

47.

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

48.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Brown, Les

49.

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

Balzac, Honore De

50.

God will forgive me, that's his business.

Heine, Heinrich