Quote: In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action. Author: Hannah Arendt 1906-1975, German-born American Political Philosopher
Quote: 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. Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty. Author: St. Augustine 354-430, Numidian-born Bishop of Hippo, Theologian
Quote: You should pardon many things in others, nothing in yourself. Author: Auson
Quote: Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. Author: Decimus Magnus Ausonius 310-10395, Latin Poet, Man of Letters
Quote: This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. Author: Francis Bacon 1561-1626, British Philosopher, Essayist, Statesman
Quote: They who forgive most shall be most forgiven. Author: Josiah Bailey 1873-1946, American Senator
Quote: I never forgive, but I always forget. Author: Arthur James Balfour 1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister
Quote: The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity. Author: Arthur James Balfour 1848-1930, British Conservative Politician, Prime Minister
Quote: The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness. Author: Honore De Balzac 1799-1850, French Novelist
Quote: ''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.'' Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note -- torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. Author: Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887, American Preacher, Orator, Writer
Quote: And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you. [Ephesians 4:32] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace. [Ephesians 1:7] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity. [Job 14:17] Author: Bible Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism
Quote: To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense. Author: Ambrose Bierce 1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''
Quote: There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. Author: Josh Billings 1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer
Quote: Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. Author: Paul Boese
Quote: Forgive those who have hurt you. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on. Author: Les Brown 1945-, American Speaker, Author, Trainer, Motivator Lecturer
Quote: 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. Author: Samuel Butler 1612-1680, British Poet, Satirist
Quote: Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine. Author: Albert Camus 1913-1960, French Existential Writer
Quote: One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious. Author: Louis-Ferdinand Celine 1894-1961, French Author
Quote: Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. Author: Edwin Hubbel Chapin 1814-1880, American Author, Clergyman
Quote: Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies. Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author
Quote: Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever. It implies a discovery of weakness, which we are more careful to conceal than a crime. Many a man will confess his crimes to a friend; but I never knew a man that would tell his silly weaknesses to his most intimate one. Author: Lord Chesterfield 1694-1773, British Statesman, Author
Quote: Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not to others what thou wouldn't not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf. Author: Confucius BC 551-479, Chinese Ethical Teacher, Philosopher
Quote: Those who easily forgive invite offenses. Author: Pierre Corneille 1606-1684, French Dramatist
Quote: It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. Author: Madame DorothT Deluzy 1747-1830, French Actress
Quote: When you are happy you can forgive a great deal. Author: Princess of Wales Diana 1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
Quote: Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. Author: Marlene Dietrich 1904-1992, German-born American Film Actor
Quote: What is forgiven is usually well remembered. Author: Louis Dudek
Quote: Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past. Author: Tryon Edwards 1809-1894, American Theologian
Quote: Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it? Author: George Eliot 1819-1880, British Novelist
Quote: Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err. Author: Euripides BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: A man must learn to forgive himself. Author: Arthur Davison Ficke
Quote: It is in pardoning that we are pardoned. Author: St. Francis of Assisi 1181-1226, Italian Preacher, Founder of the Franciscan Orde
Quote: Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave. Author: Indira Gandhi 1917-1984, Indian Prime Minster
Quote: The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Author: Mahatma Gandhi 1869-1948, Indian Political, Spiritual Leader
Quote: If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember. Author: Kahlil Gibran 1883-1931, Lebanese Poet, Novelist
Quote: If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long. Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist
Quote: ''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. Author: Dag Hammarskjold 1905-1961, Swedish Statesman, Secretary-general of U.N.
Quote: A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive Author: Sidney J. Harris 1917-, American Journalist
Quote: God will forgive me, that's his business. Author: Heinrich Heine 1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist
Quote: Of course God will forgive me; that's His job. Author: Heinrich Heine 1797-1856, German Poet, Journalist
Quote: 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. Author: George Herbert 1593-1632, British Metaphysical Poet
Quote: Forgive you? -- Oh, of course, dear, a dozen times a week! We women were created forgiveness but to speak. Author: Ella Higginson 1862-1940, American Writer, Journalist
Quote: A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. Author: Edgar Watson Howe 1853-1937, American Journalist, Author
Quote: Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. Author: Kin Hubbard 1868-1930, American Humorist, Journalist
Quote: The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact. Author: Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, British Author
Quote: If I owe Smith ten dollars and God forgives me, that doesn't pay Smith. Author: Robert Green Ingersoll 1833-1899, American Orator, Lawyer
Quote: I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge. Author: Gerald G. Jampolsky American Psychiatrist, Lecturer, Author
Quote: We easily pardon an offense we had part in. Author: Juoy
Quote: We pardon to the extent that we love. Author: Francois De La Rochefoucauld 1613-1680, French Classical Writer
Quote: He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life. Author: Lauter
Quote: Forgive thyself little, and others much. Author: Robert Leighton 1611-1684, British Clergyman
Quote: If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we would find in each person's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1819-1892, American Poet
Quote: Forgiveness is God's command. Author: Martin Luther 1483-1546, German Leader of the Protestant Reformation
Quote: The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action. Author: Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924, American Author, Founder of Success Magazine
Quote: Forgiveness is the oil of relationships. Author: Josh Mcdowell
Quote: The world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business. Author: Margaret Mitchell 1900-1949, American Novelist
Quote: 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?'' Author: Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900, German Philosopher
Quote: We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Author: Plato BC 427?-347?, Greek Philosopher
Quote: How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence? Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: To err is human, to forgive is divine. Author: Alexander Pope 1688-1744, British Poet, Critic, Translator
Quote: A reconciled friend is a double enemy. Author: Proverb
Quote: Forgive and forget. Author: Proverb
Quote: Never repeat old grievances. Author: Proverb
Quote: Those that do you a very ill deed will never forgive you. Author: Proverb
Quote: If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see. Author: Spanish Proverb Sayings of Spanish Origin
Quote: 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: Rambler
Quote: Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. Author: Jean Paul Richter 1763-1825, German Novelist
Quote: Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature! Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. Author: George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
Quote: It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too. Author: Henry Wheeler Shaw 1818-1885, American Humorist
Quote: Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time. Author: Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792-1822, British Poet
Quote: There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled? Author: Sophocles BC 495-406, Greek Tragic Poet
Quote: Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. Author: Laurence Sterne 1713-1768, British Author
Quote: He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. Author: Koran Sura
Quote: The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the nanve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget. Author: Thomas Szasz 1920-, American Psychiatrist
Quote: Forgive! How many will say, ''forgive,'' and find a sort of absolution in the sound to hate a little longer! Author: Lord Alfred Tennyson 1809-1892, British Poet
Quote: To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.'' Author: John Tillotson 1630-1694, British Theologian - Archbishop of Canterbury
Quote: Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. Author: Mark Twain 1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer
Quote: Forgiveness is the key to happiness. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Forgotten is forgiven. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: He who forgives ends the quarrel Author: Source Unknown
Quote: It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission. Author: Source Unknown
Quote: Always forgive your enemies -- nothing annoys them so much. Author: Oscar Wilde 1856-1900, British Author, Wit
Quote: God has a big eraser. Author: Billy Zeoli
Quote: Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great have become little, and the little great. Author: Johann Georg Zimmermann 1957-, German Physicist