Forgiveness Quotes
Forgiveness is a virtue, is forgiving, pardon of a fault, remission of a debt. To forgive means give up, cease to harbor resentment, wrath, to remit a debt, to give up resentment or claim to requital for, pardon an offense. Forgiveness is a Primary Law that operates as Balance under the Primary Principle of Equilibrium. Forgiveness is a state of being. It is the act of granting pardon for or remission of (something). Forgiveness has been described as a quality by which one ceases to feel resentment against another for a wrong he or she has committed against oneself. Forgiveness can be granted with or without the other asking for forgiveness. Some people also believe that persons can forgive themselves that it is possible to forgive groups of people, or that it is possible to be forgiven by God.
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Forgiveness quotes help a person to realize the worth of another person’s work. These quotes have the power to convert the actual being of the person. These sayings of the famous preachers can change a person intellectually, thereby improving the personality of the person manifolds.
Good, to forgive; Best to forget.
Robert Browning
She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last.
John Dryden
The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise..
Alden Nowlan
If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him.
Hazrat Ali
Forgive thyself little, and others much.
Leighton
Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
Forgiveness is the fragrance of the violet which still clings fast to the heel that crushed it.
Proverb
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
Koran
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others.
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note--torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Anonymous
What if this cursed hand Where thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?
William Shakespeare
Know all and you will pardon all.
Thomas a Kempis
He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert
Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.
Earl of Chesterfield
To love is human, it is also human to forgive.
Plautus
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Sterne
The offender never forgives.
Proverb
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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
I pardon him as God shall pardon me.
William Shakespeare
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai Stevenson
To err is human; to forget, divine.
J. H. Goldfuss
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Gandhi
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
Whenever fortune wishes to joke, she lifts people from what is humble to the highest extremity of affairs.
Decimus Junius Juvenal
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.
Tillotson
He who forgives readily only invites offense.
Pierre Corneille
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU.
Unknown
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the snake; For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blackened--Man's forgiveness give and take!
Omar Khayyam
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Pierre Corneille
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Madame Dorothée Deluzy
The offender never pardons.
George Herbert
He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers.
Koran
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Thomas a Kempis
These evils I deserve, and more . . . . Justly, yet despair not of his final pardon, Whose ear is ever open, and his eye Gracious to re-admit the suppliant.
John Milton
Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir.
Kabir
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.
Lord Herbert
Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey, Cancel my debt (too great to pay) Before the sad accounting day.
Wentworth Dillon
If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless.
Mahatma Gandhi
For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
John Dryden
Bear and forbear.
Publius Ovidius Naso
His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emers
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