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Category: Forgiveness

1. "Good advice is an insult that should be forgiven."

Anon.

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

Milton Berle

Quotations about: Marriage

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

Quentin Crisp, "The Naked Civil Servant"

4. "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

Quotations about: Dreams and Desires

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

Mark Twain

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

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Quotations about: Memory -:- Good and Evil

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

Italian proverb

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

8. "The offender never pardons."

English proverb

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

Federico Mayor

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

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

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

Quotations about: Law and Crime

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

Mark Twain

Quotations about: Defeates and Mistakes

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

Jane Austen, "Mansfield Park"

Quotations about: Egoism

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

George Herbert

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

Lawana Blackwell, "The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark"

Quotations about: Egoism

15. "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"

Quotations about: Anger

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

Willa Cather

Quotations about: Anger

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

Publilius Syrus

Quotations about: Happiness

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

Christina Baldwin

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

Spanish proverb

Quotations about: Egoism

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

Charles Spurgeon

Quotations about: God and Religion

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

Jorge Luis Borges

Quotations about: Memory

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility

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

Tristan J. Loo

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

Jesus Christ, Luke 17:3

Quotations about: Sin and Conscience

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

Walter Lippmann

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

Anon.

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

Max Lucado

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

Paul Boese

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

Grace Hopper

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

Arthur Balfour

Quotations about: Memory

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

Thomas Szasz, "The Second Sin"

Quotations about: Memory

32. "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"

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

Thomas Fuller

Quotations about: Friendship and Hostility -:- Trust

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

Oscar Wilde

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

Simone Weil

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

Peter Ustinov

Quotations about: Love

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

Josh Billings

38. "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"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

39. "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

Quotations about: Anger

40. "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"

Quotations about: Envy

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

Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

Quotations about: Manners and Ethics

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Quotations about: Power and Weakness

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

44. "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

Quotations about: Justice

45. "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

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

François de La Rochefoucauld

47. "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"

Quotations about: Woman and Man

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

Martin Luther King

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

Heinrich Heine


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