Forgiveness

"Forgiveness is an absolute necessity for continued human existence."

Desmond Tutu

Forgiveness

Rating: 8.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"The best for giving is FORGIVING others’ mistakes and the best for getting is FORGETTING that we have forgiven someone, but not the great lesson learnt from that incidence to let the mistake to repeat again in life."

Anuj Somany

Defeates and Mistakes

Forgiveness

Rating: 6.90 (Number of Voters: 10)

"It's noble to want to confess, but if the results are just damage and pain, that's not noble. It's selfish."

Carol Green "House M.D." - "Adverse Events"

Egoism

Forgiveness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.67 (Number of Voters: 6)

"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."

Stuart's Law of Retroaction

Forgiveness

Question and Problem

Rating: 7.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

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Forgiveness

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Milton Berle

Forgiveness

Marriage

Rating: 5.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Quentin Crisp "The Naked Civil Servant"

Forgiveness

Rating: 4.33 (Number of Voters: 6)

"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

Dreams and Desires

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Mark Twain

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield

Forgiveness

Good and Evil

Memory

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

"Revenge is the most sincere form of forgiveness."

Italian Proverbs

Forgiveness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.83 (Number of Voters: 6)

"The offender never pardons."

English Proverbs

Forgiveness

Rating: 4.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Federico Mayor

Forgiveness

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) "Epistolae ex Ponto"

Forgiveness

Law and Crime

Rating: 3.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Mark Twain

Defeates and Mistakes

Forgiveness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Jane Austen "Mansfield Park"

Egoism

Forgiveness

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

George Herbert

Forgiveness

Rating: 6.25 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Lawana Blackwell "The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark"

Egoism

Forgiveness

Rating: 5.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

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

Anger

Forgiveness

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

"Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals."

Willa Cather

Anger

Forgiveness

Rating: 8.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."

Publilius Syrus

Forgiveness

Happiness

Rating: 5.80 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Christina Baldwin

Forgiveness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Spanish Proverbs

Egoism

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Charles Spurgeon

Forgiveness

God and Religion

Rating: 4.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Jorge Luis Borges

Forgiveness

Memory

Rating: 3.33 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Forgiveness

Friendship and Hostility

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Tristan J. Loo

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Jesus Christ Luke 17:3

Forgiveness

Sin and Conscience

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 6)

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

Walter Lippmann

Forgiveness

Rating: 3.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

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Forgiveness

Rating: 3.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Max Lucado

Forgiveness

Rating: 8.00 (Number of Voters: 1)

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

Paul Boese

Forgiveness

Rating: 8.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

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

Grace Hopper

Forgiveness

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"I never forgive but I always forget."

Arthur Balfour

Forgiveness

Memory

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Thomas Szasz "The Second Sin"

Forgiveness

Memory

Rating: 4.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"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"

Forgiveness

Rating: 6.20 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Thomas Fuller

Forgiveness

Friendship and Hostility

Trust

Rating: 6.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Oscar Wilde

Forgiveness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Simone Weil

Forgiveness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

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

Peter Ustinov

Forgiveness

Love

Rating: 7.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."

Josh Billings

Forgiveness

Rating: 2.67 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Forgiveness

Woman and Man

Rating: 6.50 (Number of Voters: 2)

"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

Anger

Forgiveness

Rating: 5.00 (Number of Voters: 3)

"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"

Envy

Forgiveness

Rating: 4.40 (Number of Voters: 5)

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

Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's Dictionary"

Forgiveness

Manners and Ethics

Rating: 6.00 (Number of Voters: 4)

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness

Power and Weakness

Rating: 5.75 (Number of Voters: 4)

"We pardon to the extent that we love."

François de La Rochefoucauld

Forgiveness

Rating: 4.60 (Number of Voters: 5)

"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

Forgiveness

Justice

Rating: 7.00 (Number of Voters: 1)