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Category: Forgiveness

1. "A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong."

Milton Berle

Other categories: Marriage

2. "To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody."

Quentin Crisp, "The Naked Civil Servant"

3. "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 Hammarskjöld

Other categories: Dreams and Desires

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

Mark Twain

5. "Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever."

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Other categories: Memory -:- Good and Evil

6. "Revenge is the most sincere form of forgiveness."

Italian proverb

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

7. "The offender never pardons."

English proverb

8. "Critical remarks are only made by people who love you."

Federico Mayor

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

9. "The penalty may be removed, the crime is eternal."

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso), "Epistolae ex Ponto"

Other categories: Law and Crime

10. "Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. "

Mark Twain

Other categories: Defeates and Mistakes

11. "Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."

Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"

Other categories: Egoism

12. "He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass."

George Herbert

13. "Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."

Lawana Blackwell, "The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark"

Other categories: Egoism

14. "Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."

Cherie Carter-Scott, "If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules"

Other categories: Anger

15. "Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals."

Willa Cather

Other categories: Anger

16. "How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."

Publilius Syrus

Other categories: Happiness

17. "Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people."

Christina Baldwin

18. "If I die, I forgive you; If I live, we shall see."

Spanish proverb

Other categories: Egoism

19. "God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend."

Charles Spurgeon

Other categories: God and Religion

20. "I don't speak of revenge or forgiveness; forgetting is the only revenge and the only forgiveness."

Jorge Luis Borges

Other categories: Memory

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21. "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility

22. "Offer forgiveness not for their sake, but for your own health."

Tristan J. Loo

23. "If your brother sins, rebuke him, and if he repents, forgive him."

Jesus Christ, Luke 17:3

Other categories: Sin and Conscience

24. "To understand is not only to pardon, but in the end to love."

Walter Lippmann

25. "Forgiveness is like the fragrance a flower gives after it's been stepped on."

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26. "Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!"

Max Lucado

27. "Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."

Paul Boese

28. "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission."

Grace Hopper

29. "I never forgive but I always forget."

Arthur Balfour

Other categories: Memory

30. "The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget."

Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

Other categories: Memory

31. "Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."

George Bernard Shaw, "Man and Superman"

32. "If we are bound to forgive an enemy,we are not bound to trust him."

Thomas Fuller

Other categories: Friendship and Hostility -:- Trust

33. "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

Oscar Wilde

34. "I also am other than what I imagine myself to be. To know this is forgiveness."

Simone Weil

35. "Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit."

Peter Ustinov

Other categories: Love

36. "There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."

Josh Billings

37. "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, "The Moon and Sixpence"

Other categories: Woman and Man

38. "To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend. There is no merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend."

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: Anger

39. "The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods."

Elbert Green Hubbard, "The Note Book of Elbert Hubbard"

Other categories: Envy

40. "Apologize, v. To lay the foundation for a future offense."

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Other categories: Manners and Ethics

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Other categories: Power and Weakness

42. "We pardon to the extent that we love."

François de La Rochefoucauld

43. "One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him."

Socrates

Other categories: Justice

44. "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."

St. Augustine of Hippo

45. "We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore."

François de La Rochefoucauld

46. "Women seem to have almost unlimited capacity for forgiveness. (Since it is usually a man who needs forgiveness, this must be a racial survival trait.)"

Robert A. Heinlein, "The Cat Who Walks Through Walls"

Other categories: Woman and Man

47. "Forgiveness is not an occasional habit, it is a permanent attitude."

Martin Luther King

48. "One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged."

Heinrich Heine


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