Forgiveness Quotes

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.  ~ Josh Billings


Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude.  ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.


The weak can never forgive.  Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  ~ Mahatma Gandhi


Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.  ~ Corrie ten Boom


Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.  ~ Joseph Jacobs


Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.  ~ Oscar Wilde


Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.  ~ John F. Kennedy


To err is human, to forgive divine.  ~ Alexander Pope


To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.  ~ Franklin P. Adams


It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.  ~ George Eliot


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.  ~ Italian Proverb


Any man can seek revenge; it takes a king or prince to grant a pardon.  ~ Arthur J. Rehrat


It's easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.  ~ William Blake


Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.  ~ Harriet Uts Nelson


Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.  ~ Isaac Friedmann


Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.  ~ Lily Tomlin


Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.  ~ Joseph Conrad


The fragrance of the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.  ~ Mark Twain


Let us forget and forgive injuries.  ~ Miguel de Cervantes


Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.  ~ Oprah Winfrey


Forgiveness is God' command.  ~ Martin Luther


Who understands much, forgives much.  ~ Madame de Staël


Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.  ~ G. Weatherly


Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills.  ~ Catherine Ponder


Nobody ever forgets where he buried a hatchet.  ~ Kin Hubbard


Forgiveness is the final form of love.  ~ Reinhold Niebuhr


The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.  ~ Catherine Porter


It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.  ~ Saint Francis of Assisi


It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.  ~ Grace Hopper


To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.  ~ Confucius


Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.  ~ Marlene Dietrich


How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.  ~ Publilius Syrus


I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.  ~ C.S. Lewis


A man must learn to forgive himself.  ~ Arthur Davis Ficke


Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.  ~ Mathew 6:11-12


We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't.  ~ Elbert Hubbard


The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.  ~ George Bernard Shaw


Forgiveness means letting go of the past.  ~ Gerald Jampolsky


Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.  ~ Hannah Arendt


To understand is to forgive, even oneself.  ~ Alexander Chase


Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people.  ~ Christina Baldwin


They buried the hatchet, but in a shallow, well-marked grave.  ~ Dorothy Walworth


The offender never pardons.  ~ George Herbert


I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.  ~ Gerald Jampolsky


The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget.  ~ Thomas Szasz


To be social is to be forgiving.  ~ Robert Frost


Forgiveness is a funny thing, it warms the hearts and cools the sting.  ~ Peter Allen


Judge not, that ye not be judged.  ~ Mathew 7:1


Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.  ~ Mark Twain


Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.  ~ C.S. Lewis


Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance.  ~ H. G. Bohn


Be assured that if you knew all, you would pardon all.  ~ Thomas à Kempis


True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.”  ~ Oprah Winfrey


Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.  ~ George McDonald


To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.  ~ Robert Muller


The cut worm forgives the plow.  ~ William Blake


Forgiveness is the most tender part of love.  ~ John Sheffield


To understand is to forgive, even oneself.  ~ Alexander Chase


Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.  ~ Horace Bushnell


Life is an adventure in forgiveness.  ~ Norman Cousins