Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Forgiveness

If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821–81) Russian Novelist, Essayist, Writer

A man can lose sight of everything else when he’s bent on revenge, and it ain’t worth it.
Louis L’Amour (1908–88) American Novelist, Short-story Writer

They never pardon who commit the wrong.
John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Women and fools never forgive.
Chinese Proverb

Reason to rule but mercy to forgive:
The first is the law, the last prerogative.
John Dryden (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright

To be social is to be forgiving.
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American Poet

Repentance is accepted remorse.
Sophie Swetchine (1782–1857) Russian Mystic, Writer

A reconciled friend is a double enemy.
Common Proverb

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn’t look like an elephant.
Unknown

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.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

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 (1905–61) Swedish Statesman, UN Diplomat

Forgiveness is a virtue of the learned. To err is human, to forgive divine.
Subhashita Manjari Sanskrit Anthology of Proverbs

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion?
Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) Polish-born British Novelist

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other’s little failings.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author

I have looked on a lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God recognizes I will do this and forgives me.
Jimmy Carter (b.1924) American Head of State, Military Leader

Every man should have a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
Henry Ward Beecher (1813–87) American Clergyman, Writer

You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo (1802–85) French Novelist

People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) German Poet

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?
Alexander Pope (1688–1744) English Poet

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?
George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) (1819–80) English Novelist

Forgiveness is love in its most noble form.
Anonymous

It is hard for a haughty man ever to forgive one that has caught him in a fault, and whom he knows has reason to complain of him: his resentment never subsides till he has regained the advantage he has lost, and found means to make the other do him equal wrong.
Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author

There are people who are very resourceful
At being remorseful,
And who apparently feel that the best way to make friends
Is to do something terrible and then make amends.
Ogden Nash (1902–71) American Writer of Sophisticated Light Verse

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus (fl.85–43 BCE) Syrian-born Roman Latin Writer

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans.
Robert E. Lee (1807–70) Confederate General during American Civil War

Don’t tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946) American-British Essayist, Bibliophile

To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English Journalist, Novelist, Essayist, Poet

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician

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