Quotes about forgiveness

"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."

Francis of Assisi, St. on forgiveness
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"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave."

Gandhi, Indira on forgiveness
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"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."

Gandhi, Mahatma on forgiveness
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"If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember."

Gibran, Kahlil on forgiveness
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"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 on forgiveness
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"To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive."

Hammarskjold, Dag on forgiveness   

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

Harris, Sidney J. on forgiveness
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"Of course God will forgive me; that's His job."

Heine, Heinrich on forgiveness
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"God will forgive me, that's his business."

Heine, Heinrich on forgiveness   

"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."

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

Higginson, Ella on forgiveness   

"A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man."

Howe, Edgar Watson on forgiveness
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"Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet."

Hubbard, Kin on forgiveness
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"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 on forgiveness   

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

Ingersoll, Robert Green on forgiveness   

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

Jampolsky, Gerald G. on forgiveness
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"We easily pardon an offense we had part in."

Juoy on forgiveness   

"We pardon to the extent that we love."

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De on forgiveness
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"He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life."

Lauter on forgiveness   

"Forgive thyself little, and others much."

Leighton, Robert on forgiveness   

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"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 on forgiveness
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"Forgiveness is God's command."

Luther, Martin on forgiveness
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"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 on forgiveness
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"Forgiveness is the oil of relationships."

Mcdowell, Josh on forgiveness
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"The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business."

Mitchell, Margaret on forgiveness   

"And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?"

Nietzsche, Friedrich on forgiveness
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"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Plato on forgiveness
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"To err is human, to forgive is divine."

Pope, Alexander on forgiveness
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"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"

Pope, Alexander on forgiveness   

"Forgive and forget."

Proverb on forgiveness   

"Never repeat old grievances."

Proverb on forgiveness   

"A reconciled friend is a double enemy."

Proverb on forgiveness
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"Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you."

Proverb on forgiveness
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"If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see."

Proverb, Spanish on forgiveness
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"A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain."

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

Richter, Jean Paul on forgiveness
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"The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing."

Shaw, George Bernard on forgiveness
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"Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!"

Shaw, George Bernard on forgiveness
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"It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too."

Shaw, Henry Wheeler on forgiveness   

"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 on forgiveness