Forgiveness Quotes

 

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

Who forgives wins.

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