Forgiveness Proverbs
Sayings about Forgiveness
Forgiveness hides a pleasure that you can't get back from revenge. ~ Iranian ProverbsIt is fitting for a great God to forgive great sinners. ~ Hebrew Proverbs
Forgiving the unrepentant is like drawing pictures on water. ~ Japanese Proverbs
Forgiveness is more satisfying than revenge. ~ Arabian Proverbs
One can forgive a murder but not impoliteness. ~ Chinese Proverbs
Where blood has been shed the tree of forgiveness cannot grow. ~ Brazilian Proverbs
He who forgives a thief is a thief himself. ~ Spanish Proverbs
The offender never forgives. ~ Russian Proverbs
Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. ~ Bible
If you forgive the fox for stealing your chickens, he will take your sheep. ~ Georgian Proverbs
Who forgives wins. ~ African Proverb
He who forgives ends the quarrel. ~ Saying
Forgiveness is the key to happiness. ~ Saying
Women and fools never forgive. ~ Chinese Proverb
Poverty is a sin that the rich never forgive. ~ Russian Proverb
If I die, I forgive you; if I recover, we shall see. ~ Spanish Proverb
Forgive and forget. ~ Traditional Proverb
Oh, misfortune, I forgive you when you come alone. ~ Turkish Proverbs
If you offend, ask for pardon; if offended, forgive. ~ Ethiopian Proverbs
Forgiveness is a pillar of justice. ~ Russian Proverb
To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar. ~ Saying
The noblest vengeance is to forgive. ~ Traditional Proverb
They forgive the wine but they hang the bottle. ~ French Proverbs
The Irish forgive their great men when they are safely buried. ~ Irish Proverbs
Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you. ~ Traditional Proverb
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury. ~ Islamic Proverb
You forgive everything of someone who doesn’t forgive himself. ~ Chinese Proverb
A Christian forgives, an idiot forgets. ~ Corsican Proverbs
God forgives sinners; otherwise His heaven would be empty. ~ German Proverbs
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends. ~ Afghan Proverbs
It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. ~ Saying
If there were no wrongdoing, there would be no forgiveness. ~ Egyptian Proverbs
Quotations about Forgiveness
One forgives to the degree that one loves. ~ Francois De La RochefoucauldForgiveness is the key to action and freedom. ~ Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the act of admitting we are like other people. ~ Christina Baldwin
The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. ~ Margaret Mitchell
We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends. ~ Cosmus
We should always forgive,--the penitent for their sake, the impenitent for our own. ~ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace. ~ G. Weatherly
He who forgives readily only invites offense. ~ Pierre Corneille
After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations. ~ Oscar Wilde
A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ~ Edgar Watson Howe
When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. ~ Princess Diana
The more we know, the better we forgive; Whoe'er feels deeply, feels for all who live. ~ Madame de Stael
When women love us they forgive everything. ~ Honore de Balzac
Who understands much, forgives much. ~ Anne Germain De Stael
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. ~ George Herbert
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw
We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven't. ~ Elbert Hubbard
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ~ Jean Paul Richter
Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~ Harriet Nelson
What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven. ~ Mignon McLaughlin
Life is an adventure in forgiveness. ~ Norman Cousins
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. ~ Henry Wheeler Shaw
To love is human, it is also human to forgive. ~ Plautus
The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. ~ Honore De Balzac
Forgiveness is better than revenge. ~ Pittacus of Mitylene
As nice as we are in love, we forgive more faults in that than in friendship. ~ Henry Home
Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me. ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. ~ Les Brown
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit. ~ Peter Ustinov
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights. ~ Nathan Croall
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge. ~ Scott Adams
If you want to see the brave, look at those who can forgive. ~ Bhagavad Gita
We should forgive freely, but forget rarely. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
I never forgive, but I always forget. ~ Arthur James Balfour
Without forgiveness, there's no future. ~ Desmond Tutu
Life, that ever need's forgiveness, has, for its, first duty, to forgive. ~ Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. ~ Horace Bushnell
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won’t ~ Alfred Korzybski
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives. ~ Lawana Blackwell
Forgiveness is the final form of love. ~ Reinhold Niebuhr
And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. ~ Bible
From my experience, forgiving is the only way to survive. ~ Molly Ringwald
It is easy enough to forgive your enemies if you have not the means to harm them. ~ Heinrich Heine
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~ Josh Billings
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~ Grace Hopper
Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ~ Decimus Magnus Ausonius
Forgive others often, yourself never. ~ Syrus
We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them. ~ Samuel Butler
"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying "I will not forgive." A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive. ~ Dag Hammarskjold
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing ~ George Bernard Shaw
One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. ~ Franklin P. Jones
When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive. ~ Alan Paton
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 most tender part of love. ~ John Sheffield
We may forgive those who bore us, we cannot forgive those whom we bore. ~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde
And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, "I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?" ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~ Lewis B. Smedes
Forgive you? Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak. ~ Ella Higginson
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~ Paul Boese
A coward never forgives. ~ Laurence Sterne
To be social is to be forgiving ~ Robert Frost
Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~ Antonio Porchia
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~ Mark Twain
Those who easily forgive invite offenses. ~ Pierre Corneille
The mind that too frequently forgives bad actions will at last forget good ones. ~ Frederic Reynolds
Forgiveness is the oil of relationships. ~ Josh McDowell
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody every night you go to bed. ~ Ann Landers
Men are less forgiving than women. ~ Samuel Richardson
Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.~ Marlene Dietrich
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~ William Blake
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. ~ George MacDonald
Forgive thyself little, and others much. ~ Robert Leighton
Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. ~ Laurence Sterne
God will forgive me; that’s his business ~ Heinrich Heine
Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons. ~ Joseph Jacobs
Forgiveness is the noblest vengeance. ~ H.G. Bohn
As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind. ~ Isabelle Holland
To receive an injury is to be wounded; but to forgive and forget it is the cure. ~ William Scott Downey
Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again. ~ St. Augustine
Forgiveness is healing ... especially forgiving yourself. ~ Alyson Noël
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. ~ Robert Muller
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~ Isaac Friedmann
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right. ~ J. K. Rowling
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. ~ Thomas Szasz
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. ~ Philip James Bailey
A man must learn to forgive himself. ~ Arthur Davison Ficke
Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. ~ Lewis B. Smedes
Women do not often have it in their power to give like men, but they forgive like Heaven. ~ Madame Suzanne Curchod Necker
The narrow soul knows not the godlike glory of forgiving. ~ Nicholas Rowe
Forgiveness is all-powerful. Forgiveness heals all ills. ~ Catherine Ponder
To err is human, to forgive, divine. ~ Alexander Pope
Forgiveness is a gift we give ourselves that allows us to get on with our lives instead of being trapped in the past by resentment. ~ Rick Warren
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. ~ John Fitzgerald Kennedy
To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. ~ George Sand
Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. ~ Indira Gandhi
Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~ William Arthur Ward
Forgiveness is the way to true health and happiness. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? ~ Dolores Huerta
He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. ~ Johann Kaspar Lavater
The brave only know how to forgive. ~ Laurence Sterne
Yes, we ought to forgive our enemies, but not until they are hanged. ~ Heinrich Heine
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. ~ Author Unknown
If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll
Forgiveness is God's command. ~ Martin Luther
That neither God nor man can well forgive. ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
Forgive! How many will say, "forgive," and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer! ~ Lord Alfred Tennyson
God has a big eraser. ~ Billy Zeoli
We forgive too little, forget too much. ~ Madame Soimonoff
A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive. ~ Sidney J. Harris
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~ Olin Miller
Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good. ~ Catherine Porter
The moment an individual can accept and forgive himself, even a little, is the moment in which he becomes to some degree lovable. ~ Eugene Kennedy
What is forgiven is usually well remembered. ~ Louis Dudek
Forgive those who have hurt you. ~ Les Brown
To understand is to forgive, even oneself. ~ Alexander Chase
Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~ Roberto Assagioli
Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace. ~ Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
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