You forgive everything of someone who doesn’t forgive himself. ~ Chinese Proverb
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~ Antonio Porchia
Women and fools never forgive. ~ Chinese Proverb
Without forgiveness, there’s no future. ~ Desmond Tutu
Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~ Roberto Assagioli
Who forgives wins. ~ African Proverb
Where blood has been shed the tree of forgiveness cannot grow. ~ Brazilian Proverb
When women love us they forgive everything. ~ Honore de Balzac
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. ~ Alan Paton
What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
We should always forgive,–the penitent for their sake, the impenitent for our own. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
We pardon as long as we love. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
To love is human; it is also human to forgive. ~ Plautus
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~ Lewis B. Smedes
To err is human, to forgive, divine. ~ Alexander Pope
To be social is to be forgiving ~ Robert Frost
Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you. ~ Traditional Proverb
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ~ Philip James Bailey
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
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ~ George Bernard Shaw
The noblest vengeance is to forgive. ~ Traditional Proverb
The narrow soul knows not the godlike glory of forgiving. ~ Nicholas Rowe
The more we know, the better we forgive; Whoe’er feels deeply, feels for all who live. ~ Madame de Stael
The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights. ~ Nathan Croall
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. ~ Irish Proverb
The brave only know how to forgive. ~ Laurence Sterne
That neither God nor man can well forgive. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Poverty is a sin that the rich never forgive. ~ Russian Proverb
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. ~ J. K. ROWLING
One can forgive a murder but not impoliteness. ~ Chinese Proverb
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~ Marlene Dietrich
Men are less forgiving than women. ~ Samuel Richardson
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov
Life, that ever need’s forgiveness, has, for its, first duty, to forgive. ~ Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~ Norman Cousins
Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~ Grace Hopper
It’s a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it ~ Stephen Leacock
It is fitting for a great God to forgive great sinners. ~ Hebrew Proverb
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ William Blake
If you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep. ~ Georgian Proverb
If there were no wrongdoing, there would be no forgiveness. ~ Egyptian Proverb
If God were not forgiving, heaven would be empty. ~ Berber Proverb
He who forgives a thief is a thief himself. ~ Spanish Proverb
He who does not know is forgiven by God. ~ African Proverb
God will forgive me; that’s his business ~ Heinrich Heine
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won’t ~ Alfred Korzybski
God forgives sinners; otherwise His heaven would be empty. ~ German Proverb
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water. ~ Japanese Proverb
Forgiveness, that noblest of all self-denial, is a virtue, which he alone that can practice in himself, can willingly believe in another. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~ Mark Twain
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 healing … especially forgiving yourself. ~ ALYSON NOËL
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. ~ Catherine Ponder
Forgiveness is a pillar of justice. ~ Russian Proverb
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment. ~ Rick Warren
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~ William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese
Forgive others often, yourself never. ~ Syrus
Don’t tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. ~ Henry Home
All forgiveness is a gift to yourself. ~ A Course in Miracles
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde
A sin confessed is half forgiven. ~ French Proverb
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury. ~ Islamic Proverb
A hidden sin is half forgiven. ~ Italian Proverb
A coward never forgives. ~ Laurence Sterne
