Forgiveness Quotes
These forgiveness quotes and sayings may help those seeking absolution and those considering granting pardon. Forgiving someone who has wronged you may be the hardest thing to do, but it is your path to peace and tranquility.
You can never hope to live peacefully if you continue to carry the grudge or the pain a person inflicted upon you. The only way to live happily is to forgive and move forward.
Read the principles communicated here and incorporate them into your interaction style in your relationships. Encourage forgiveness and help spread peace. Life is short. Don’t carry a grudge.
Quotes about Forgiveness
- Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde - Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
Paul Boose - Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee - A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.
William Arthur Ward - It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou - When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.
Dale Carnegie
Regrets
Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.
Nelson Mandela
When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
Katherine Ponder
Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves – regret for the past and fear of the future.
Fulton Oursler
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
Forget regret or life is yours to miss.
Jonathan Larson
Regret is an appalling waste of energy. You can’t build on it—it’s only good for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield
Forgive and Forget
The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas Szasz
The ability to forgive is one of man’s greatest achievements.
Bryant H. McGill
There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
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. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave.
Ivern Ball
Pardoning those who have done wrong
Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
True forgiveness is not an action after the fact; it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.
David Ridge
If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.
Robert Brault
Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.
Corrie ten Boom
Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Mason Cooley
Harbor No Grudge
To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Louis B. Smedes
A life lived without forgiveness is a life lived in the past.
Asa Don Brown
Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.
Isaac Friedmann
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.
Criss Jami
To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it.
Confucius
To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Forgiveness Quotes to Bury the Hatchet
- Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.
Unknown - We read that we ought to forgive our enemies, but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.
Sir Francis Bacon - We are all on a lifelong journey, and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality, is forgiving and being forgiven.
Martha Kilpatrick - To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller - Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy - Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
William Arthur Ward - We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, or because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.
Ellen Goodman - There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.
James Truslow Adams
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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