The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma GandhiLife is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile.
Mark TwainTo understand everything is to forgive everything
BuddhaI could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.
Jane AustenTrue forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
Oprah WinfreyI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyForget injuries, never forget kindnesses
ConfuciusSelfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Jane AustenForgiveness does not mean excusing.
C. S. LewisForgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. KennedyIt is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William BlakeForgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark TwainPeople can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill CosbyThe one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. WilsonBlemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven, darkness makes any woman fair.
OvidWomen love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar WildeYou ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing
Jane AustenEveryone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.
C. S. LewisHumanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness or else forgiving another.
Jean PaulAlways forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde'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 BeecherForgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold NiebuhrTo err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander PopeTalent may be in time forgiven but genius never
Lord ByronForgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
Mason CooleyThe public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar WildeFlatter me and I may not believe you. Criticize me and I may not like you. Ignore me and I may not forgive you. Encourage me and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur WardNever forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love prayer and forgiveness.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert FrostGod pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward BeecherTo be intimate with a married man when my own father cheated on my mother is not something I could forgive. I could not look at myself in the morning if I did that. I wouldn't be attracted to a man who would cheat on his wife.
Angelina JolieMost laws condemn the soul and pronounce sentence. The result of the law of my God is perfect. It condemns but forgives. It restores - more than abundantly - what it takes away.
Jim ElliotForgiveness is a quality that every man should possess.
Sai BabaTo confer dignity forgive. To express contempt forget.
Mason CooleyOnce a woman has forgiven her man she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene DietrichThe cut worm forgives the plough.
William BlakeThere is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh BillingsIt is a very delicate job to forgive a man without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Josh BillingsWithout forgiveness there's no future.
Desmond TutuYou can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition, but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes or staring when you were in a fit of laughter would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis StevensonWe can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark, the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
PlatoThe only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.
William HazlittForgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Desmond TutuWe 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.But who forgives the senior's ceaseless verse / Whose hairs grow hoary as his rhymes grow worse?
Lord ByronEvery year during their High Holy Days the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Billy GrahamThe glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
William BlakeA wise man will make haste to forgive because he knows the true value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel JohnsonForgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Elbert HubbardSociety can overlook murder adultery or swindling, it never forgives preaching of a new gospel.
Edmund BurkeSelfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward BeecherThe beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband that of an ugly person in his scholarship and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.
ChanakyaForgiveness is God's command.
Martin LutherBeware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard ShawOrdinary readers forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects, and whatever you may say I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.
Jean-Jacques RousseauOne forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldBefore Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962 he was an angry relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Desmond TutuThe heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Honore de BalzacForgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost and was found is saved from being lost again.
Saint AugustineConfess your sins to the Lord and you will be forgiven, confess them to man and you will be laughed at.
Josh BillingsIt's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana TurnerWhen you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Princess DianaThe Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes and say 'O God forgive me ' or 'Help me.'
Billy GrahamHe that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself, for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas FullerForgiveness of enemies can only come upon their repentance.
William BlakeIn the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive and he said 70 times 7. Well I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
Hillary ClintonWe easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Francois de La RochefoucauldWhen I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo PhilipsMan has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Billy GrahamMutual Forgiveness of each vice / Such are the Gates of Paradise.
William BlakeLet us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhen women love us they forgive us everything even our crimes, when they do not love us they give us credit for nothing not even our virtues.
Honore de BalzacForgive son, men are men, they needs must err.
EuripidesWe often forgive those who bore us but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La RochefoucauldAll faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt WhitmanReversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Elbert HubbardThere is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.
Henry RollinsBecause forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Desmond TutuYour successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus