Forgiveness Quotes

We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice.

Louise Hay

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

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.

Martin Luther King Jr

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

William Arthur Ward

Forgiveness is of high value, yet it costs nothing.

Unknown

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

Mark Twain

It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission.

Grace Hopper

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.

George Herbert

Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Frank McKinney

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Roberto Assagioli

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.

Cherie Carter-Scott

We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love.

Paul Tillich

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Gerald Jampolsky

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.

Glenn Clark

Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.

Unknown

Only He who has the power to punish can pardon.

Ali bin Abu-Talib

I think there comes a point where you have to grow up and get over yourself, lighten up...and forgive.

Jennifer Joanna Aniston

Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince\'s part to pardon.

Francis Bacon

One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

Napolon Bonaparte

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Bryant McGill

I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.

Henry Ward Beecher

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