No revenge Quotes

11 quotes from 9 authors

When the urge to strike back fades, many find a quieter strength in letting go. This short set of eleven voices shows how people weigh the cost of retaliation against the peace of forgiveness. If you’re curious about similar ideas, check out the forgiveness, justice, and anger pages for deeper insight.

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'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury.

Benjamin Franklin

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I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?

William Shakespeare

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A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is no revenge like oblivion, for it is the entombment of the unworthy in the dust of their own nothingness.

Baltasar Gracian

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Take no revenge that you have not pondered beneath a starry sky, or on a canyon overlook, or to the lapping of…

Robert Breault

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No need for Revenge. Just sit back & wait. Those who hurt you will eventually screw up themselves & if youre lucky,…

Karan

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Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge and are incapable of feeling te pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

Lord Chesterfield

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Many of you wished me dead. Many of you perhaps still do. But I hold no grudges and seek no revenge. I…

Julius Caesar

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Know how to play the card of contempt. It is the most politic kind of revenge. For there are many of whom…

Baltasar Gracian

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However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the…

Emily Bronte

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Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? ...If you poison us, do we not…

William Shakespeare

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