Forgiveness Quotes


Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.  ~ Oscar Wilde

  • A sin confessed is half forgiven.~ French Proverb
  • A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her, but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account~  William Somerset Maugham
  • Don’t tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.~  Logan Pearsall Smith
  • If there were no wrongdoing, there would be no forgiveness.~ Egyptian Proverb
  • Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~ Harriet Nelson
  • Forgive and forget.~ Traditional Proverb
  • Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.~ Thomas a Kempis
  • Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.  ~ Paul Boese
  • Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can’t get back from revenge.~ Iranian Proverb
  • Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.~ Catherine Ponder
  • Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.  ~ Isaac Friedmann
  • Forgiveness is better than revenge.~ Pittacus of Mitylene
  • Forgiveness is a pillar of justice.~ Russian Proverb
  • Forgiveness is more satisfying than revenge.~ Arabian Proverb
  • Forgiveness is a funny thing.  It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~ William Arthur Ward
  • Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean.~ Dag Hammarskjold
  • Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness.~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
  • God will forgive me; that’s his business ~  Heinrich Heine
  • He who does not know is forgiven by God.~ African Proverb
  • He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven ~ George Herbert
  • He who forgives a thief is a thief himself.~ Spanish Proverb
  • He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
  • I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.  Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
  • If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.~ Spanish Proverb
  • If you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep.~ Georgian Proverb
  • If you offend, ask for pardon; if offended, forgive.~ Ethiopian Proverb
  • It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.  ~ Grace Hopper
  • It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.~ William Blake
  • It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.~ Olin Miller
  • It’s a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it ~  Stephen Leacock
  • God forgives sinners, otherwise His heaven would be empty.~ German Proverb
  • God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won’t ~  Alfred Korzybski
  • Good, to forgive; Best to forget.~ Robert Browning
  • Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
  • Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.~ Peter Ustinov
  • Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~ E.H. Chapin
  • One can forgive a murder but not impoliteness.~ Chinese Proverb
  • One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget.~ Franklin P. Jones
  • Poverty is a sin that the rich never forgive.~ Russian Proverb
  • The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried.~ Irish Proverb
  • There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.  ~ Josh Billings
  • The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ~ George Bernard Shaw
  • They forgive the wine but they hang the bottle.~ French Proverb
  • The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
  • To love is human, it is also human to forgive. ~ Plautus
  • To be social is to be forgiving ~  Robert Frost
  • You forgive everything of someone who doesn’t forgive himself.~ Chinese Proverb
  • We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.~ Pierre Corneille
  • What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven.~ Mignon McLaughlin
  • When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.~  Emo Philips
  • Where blood has been shed the tree of forgiveness cannot grow.~ Brazilian Proverb
  • Who forgives wins.~ African Proverb
  • Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~ Roberto Assagioli
  • Women and fools never forgive.~ Chinese Proverb
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