Forgiveness Quotes

Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood.

I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

I don’t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you.

Pray you now, forget and forgive.

The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everyone blind. It destroys communities and makes humanity impossible. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers... In winning our freedom, we will so appeal to you heart and conscience that we will win you in the process.

After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations.

If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

We forget our guilt when we have confessed it to another, but the other does not usually forget it.

Relationship is about forgiveness and compromise. It is about balance where one person complements each other.

Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones.

It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

I maybe made some mistakes, but I'm only human.

A great nation is like a great man:When he makes a mistake, he realizes it.Having realized it, he admits it.Having admitted it, he corrects it.He considers those who point out his faultsas his most benevolent teachers.He thinks of his enemyas the shadow that he himself casts.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.

I destroy my enemy if I make him my friend.

What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it — that's in the first reader for squares — is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had.

I must forgive without noise or fuss.

Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.

If one by one we counted people out For the least sin, it wouldn't take us long To get so we had no one left to live with. For to be social is to be forgiving.

Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be.

I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don�t usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day.

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Forgive and forget, but never forget to forgive. You may find a happier heart is the key to a happier life.

Releasing guilt is like removing a huge weight from your shoulders. Guilt is released through the empowering thought of love and respect for yourself. Let go of standards of perfection and refuse to use up the precious currency of your life, the now, with thoughts that continue to frustrate and weaken you. Instead, vow to be better than you used to be, which is the true test of nobility.

A satyagrahi loves his so-called enemy even as he loves his friend. He has no enemy.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.

We forgive but not forgotten

Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

Religion taught us to return good for evil.

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Forgive, but don't forget

My object then," replied Darcy, "was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'

Since we do not take a man on his past history, we do not refuse him because of his past history. I never met a man who was thoroughly bad. There is always some good in him if he gets a chance.

In struggling for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must not allow themselves to become bitter or indulge in hate campaigns. To retaliate with hate and bitterness would do nothing but intensify the hate in the world. Along the way of life, someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can be done only by projecting the ethics of love to the center of our lives.

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

You can't have real love without operating in forgiveness. Love keeps giving the other person another chance.

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

I don't forgive people because I'm weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.

We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate - thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.

Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?

In our concern for others, we worry less about ourselves. When we worry less about ourselves an experience of our own suffering is less intense. What does this tell us? Firstly, because our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness, ethics are necessary as a means to ensure that we do not harm others. Secondly, it tells us that genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others' happiness.

Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another.

I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim.

Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love.

It [the Civil War] was a heroic struggle; and, as is inevitable with all such struggles, it had also a dark and terrible side. Very much was done of good, and much also of evil; and, as was inevitable in such a period of revolution, often the same man did both good and evil. For our great good fortune as a nation, we, the people of the United States as a whole, can now afford to forget the evil, or, at least, to remember it without bitterness, and to fix our eyes with pride only on the good that was accomplished.

As soon as error is corrected, it is important that the error be forgotten and only the successful attempts be remembered. Errors, mistakes, and humiliations are all necessary steps in the learning process. Once they have served their purpose, they should be forgotten. If we constantly dwell upon the errors, then the error or failure becomes the goal.

And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds?

Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.

Children start out loving their parents, but as they grow older and discover their parents are human, they become judgmental. And sometimes, when they mature, they forgive their parents, especially when they discover they are also human.