Forgiving Quotes

1882 Forgiving quotes by 1110 unique authors

If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out… — Elizabeth Gilbert
I am overcome by my own amazing sloth...Can you please forgive me and believe that it is really because I want to do something well… — Elizabeth Bishop
Sitting here now today, I can forgive a lot of the English people because it only takes a hand full of bad people to do… — Marvin Hagler
You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that. — Friedrich Nietzsche
I think seriousness is a mask of self-importance and self-importance in turn is a mask for self-pity. So if you're really going to pursue a… — Deepak Chopra
Everything is ended if you forgive and forget. — Swami Vivekananda
Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory. — Swami Vivekananda
Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another. — Swami Vivekananda
It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work. — Swami Vivekananda
The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother. — Swami Vivekananda
You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving. — Swami Vivekananda
Let us, then, try what love will do, for if people once see we love them, we should soon find that they would not harm… — William Penn
The only thing left to do is forgive and forget. I want to forgive you and I want to forget you. — Lauren Conrad
I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin… — Elizabeth Gilbert
He gave her an indulgent look. "I'll forgive these rash words for now." She sputtered, "Forgive? Let's talk about who should be forgiving who.""Whom," he… — Kresley Cole
To err is human, to forgive is against company policy. — Lew Wasserman
It is of course evident that everything in one's religious life depends upon the sort of God one worships. The character of the worshiper must… — Hannah Whitall Smith
God is life. I understand that and express it. God is perfect Truth. I understand that and express it. God is Love. I understand that… — Emmet Fox
When you forgive, some deeper, divine generosity takes you over... When you cannot forgive, you are a prisoner of the hurt done to you. — John O'Donohue
To forgive heals the wound, to forget heals the scar. — P T Barnum
Now when I hear about someone's illness, no matter what dire their predicament seems to be, I know that if they're willing to do the… — Louise Hay
You know, Sage, Jesus didn't tell us to forgive everyone. He said turn the other cheek, but only if you the one who was hit.… — Jodi Picoult
Cultivate an attitude of gratitude, of giving and forgiving. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Forgive us our trespasses," says Margarethe, "and get out of our way. — Gregory Maguire
O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station. — Saul Bellow

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