Forgiveness Quotes
+56Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
- Oscar Wilde
+54The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
- Anonymous
+22Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
- Anonymous
+22We frequently forgive those who bore us, but cannot forgive those whom we bore.
– Francois
+21It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
- Anonymous
+4Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
- William A. Ward
+4The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
- Thomas Szasz
+3Pray you now, forget and forgive.
- William Shakespeare
+3To err is human; to forgive divine.
- Alexander Pope
+3Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heal that has crushed it.
- Mark Twain
+3Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury.
- E. H. Chapin
+3If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.
- Mahatma Gandhi
+3If I’ve done anything I’m sorry for, I’m willing to be forgiven.
- Edward Westcott
+2Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
- Isaac Friedmann
+2Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
- Norman Cousins
+2It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
- William Blake
+2The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
- George Bernard Shaw
+2He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
- George Herbert
+2Don’t tell friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
- Logan Pearsall Smith
+2Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
- H. Jackson Brown
+2Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.
- Dag Hammarskjold
+1We achieve inner health only through forgiveness – the forgiveness not only of others but also of ourselves.
- Joshua Loth Liebman
+1True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.
- David Ridge
+1Forgiveness is the economy of the heart… forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.
- Hannah Moore
+1Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
- Jewel
+1Forgiveness allows you to focus on the future without combating the past.
- Anonymous
+1Forgive someone because you believe they are truly sorry, not just because you want to keep them in your life.
- Anonymous
+1The one who forgives little, loves little.
- Anonymous
+1Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness.
- Tina Dayton
+1The offender never pardons.
- George Herbert
+1You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
- Lewis B. Smedes
+1To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
- Franklin P. Adams
+1One forgives to the degree that one loves.
- Francois
+1There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Josh Billings
+1Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave.
- Ivern Ball
+1The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.
- Allen C. Guelzo
+1Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
- Ausonius
+1A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
- Robert Quillen
+1No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.
- Real Live Preacher
+1The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
- William Blake
