Forgiveness Quotes

46. Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

^{Hannah Arendt}

47. One forgives to the degree that one loves.

^{Francois de La Rochefoucauld}

48. Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.

^Mahavira

49. Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

^{Edwin Hubbel Chapin}

50. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

^{Corrie Ten Boom}

51. Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

^{Laurence Sterne}

52. God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won’t.

^{Alfred Korzybski}

53. I place an enormous premium on loyalty. If someone betrays me, I can forgive them rationally, but emotionally I have found it impossible to do so.

^{Richard E. Grant}

54. When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

^{Princess Diana}

55. Forgotten is forgiven.

^{F. Scott Fitzgerald}

56. If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.

^{Friedrich Nietzsche}

57. The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

^{Robert Downey, Jr.}

58. I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.

^{Sue Monk Kidd}

59. Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

^{Mackenzie Phillips}

60. God will forgive me. It’s his job.

^{Heinrich Heine}

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

^{George Bernard Shaw}

62. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

^{Jean Paul}

63. One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

^{Bernard Baruch}

64. God forgive you, but I never can.

^{Elizabeth I}

65. I invite everyone to chose forgiveness rather than division, teamwork over personal ambition.

^{Jean-Francois Cope}

66. 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 made clean again.

^{Dag Hammarskjold}

67. Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.

^Jewel

68. Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

^{Emma Goldman}

69. I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

^{Catherine the Great}

70. Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

^{Lex Luger}

71. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

^{Publilius Syrus}

72. What is forgiven is usually well remembered.

^{Louis Dudek}

73. It’s toughest to forgive ourselves. So it’s probably best to start with other people. It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.

^{Patty Duke}

74. Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

^{George MacDonald}

75. I never forgive, but I always forget.

^{Arthur Balfour}

76. Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

^Ausonius

77. Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

^{Phillips Brooks}

78. The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

^{Iyanla Vanzant}

79. How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

^{Clarissa Pinkola Estes}

80. To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

^{Alexander Chase}

81. A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

^{Sydney J. Harris}

82. As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

^{Joan Baez}

83. Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

^{Alice Miller}

84. The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

^{Marianne Williamson}

85. I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

^{Chaim Herzog}

86. A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.

^{Robert Fripp}

87. We are not forgiven because we are good. We are forgiven because Christ bore our sins.

^{Joseph Prince}

88. My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

^{Janine Turner}

89. The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.

^{Jane Fonda}

90. Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed – for the most part, every family’s got them.

^{Tyler Perry}

91. Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

^{Elbert Hubbard}

92. I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

^{Gerald Jampolsky}

93. If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn’t pay Smith.

^{Robert Green Ingersoll}

94. God forgives those who invent what they need.

^{Lillian Hellman}