Top 48 First To Forgive Quotes
#1. Resentment is one burden that is incompatible with your success. Always be the first to forgive; and forgive yourself first always.
Dan Zadra
#2. And where was that day? Past and dead. Whose humiliating memories were these? His and not his father's. What had he to think back on that he could call good? Very, very little. You had to forgive. First, to forgive yourself, and then, general forgiveness.
Saul Bellow
#3. In order to forgive an offender,
we have first to forgive ourselves,
then we can forgive them.
In this way we are not
helpless victims anymore,
we regain our power,
acting from our peaceful place
of power.
Human Angels
#4. I wonder about my sister Janelle, too, who does know and wrote me this email - this long, long email that I had to close and not look at, because the first paragraph contained the words 'I forgive you', and I don't want anyone's forgiveness.
I'm not the one who has to be forgiven.
Robin York
#5. Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
Louis Dudek
#6. Mona told herself that even if her recent feelings were a delusion, they were by far preferable to the thirty years of immaculate deception she had suffered in her first marriage. Yet she had to forgive Akbar Ahmad - perhaps because he was already dead.
Musharraf Ali Farooqi
#7. We would not have to forgive people if we didn't judge them in the first place.
Barry Neil Kaufman
#8. I look at my reflection in the mirror and I see a girl who desperately wants to forgive a boy, but not without a hell of a lot of grovelling first.
Colleen Hoover
#9. I have learned to accept my responsibility and to forgive myself first, then to apologise to anyone injured by my misreckoning.
Maya Angelou
#11. It's not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.
Paulo Coelho
#13. Forgive yourself first. Let go of past hurts and direct your spirit to goodness and hope by having gratitude.
Janet Taylor Spence
#14. Learn to forgive. First others, then yourself - mostly yourself. But you have to forgive. "Get rid of the negativity. So much of your life can go down this dark drain if you let it. Every negative feeling makes you sicker. Every positive feeling makes you better.
Lionel Fisher
#15. Forgiveness.
It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.
Ian Gardner
#16. Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.
Bob Dylan
#17. In order to forgive, you have to remember how you were hurt in the first place. And that in order to forget, you had to accept your role in what had happened.
Jodi Picoult
#18. To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#19. The first key to happiness, is to forgive.
Andrew Trinh
#20. You shouldn't ask for forgiveness.
Because if you ask someone to forgive you, and they do, then that's twice that you've taken something from them. First the betrayal, and then the absolution.
Meg Howrey
#21. There is evil in everyone. The first step toward loving someone else is to recognize that evil in yourself, so you can forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#22. Everybody kind of has to learn the same lessons. You've got to learn how to get over your first love. You've got to learn how to forgive people that emotionally abuse you. You've got to learn how to let go in a lot of ways.
Weyes Blood
#23. You must first forgive yourself in order to forgive others.
Debasish Mridha
#24. The karmic cycle, when someone screws up really bad and hurts you. Our first instinct is to hurt back, or refuse to forgive.
Jennifer Probst
#25. I got screwed over in some bad business deals, but as long as I focused on those past problems, I couldn't move forward. I had to let all of that go and forgive everyone and everything first.
Steve Pavlina
#26. Never forgive, never forget. Do it once and do it right. You reap what you sow. Plans go to hell as soon as the first shot is fired. Protect and serve. Never off duty.
Lee Child
#27. You want to be loved? Love yourself first and passionately. Forgive yourself readily. Care for every part of you. Only when you love yourself do you have love to give to others.
Toni Sorenson
#28. We begin to forgive by choosing to forgive ... by deciding, not by feeling. Our feelings don't lead us to forgive. Most times, our feelings lead us the other way. That's why a person has to decide to forgive first. Our feelings always follow along behind our decisions.
Andy Andrews
#29. I forgive. First, because I've been forgiven by God. Second, unforgiveness makes me miserable. And third, I'm going to need more forgiveness in the future. So we don't forgive for their benefit. We actually forgive for ours.
Rick Warren
#30. A good place to begin, is to forgive yourself for judging in the first place.
Bryant McGill
#31. First, forgive. Second, forget by choosing not to dwell on that which is forgiven and in the past. We have no right to keep in front of us what God has put behind Him.
David Jeremiah
#32. In order to turn around and do something better, we must first escape the vicious circle of self-righteousness and denial. And that calls for the humility to say "I'm sorry. Please forgive me."
Desmond Tutu
#33. And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work.
Soren Kierkegaard
#34. She said that everyone has some evil inside them, and the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil inside ourselves,so we're able to forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#35. There was a man of the cloth - Reverend Shibata of the First Baptist Church - who left urging everyone to forgive and forget. There was a man in a shiny brown suit - fry cook Kanda of Yabu Noodle - who left urging Reverend Shibata to give it a rest.
Julie Otsuka
#37. The past can hold a weak man down like an anchor. It takes a strong man to remember the past, but forgive. Forgive and forget. Taking the first step forward is difficult. But take it. Save a backward glance for the times when you're uncertain, just to make sure your past is where it belongs,
Scott Hildreth
#38. People who go on to be writers are those who can forgive themselves the horror of the first draft.
Alain De Botton
#39. [They shoot, Greedo dies. [To innkeeper:] Pray, goodly Sir, forgive me for the mess. [Aside:] And whether I shot first, I'll ne'er confess! [Exeunt.
Ian Doescher
#40. The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#41. the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them." "Is
Veronica Roth
#42. Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don't become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don't remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.
Les Brown
#43. The first and often only person to be healed by forgiveness is the person who does the forgiveness ... When we genuinely forgive, we set a prisoner free and then discover that the prisoner we set free was us.
Lewis B. Smedes
#44. I know there are people who believe you should forgive and forget. For the record, I'd like to say I'm a big fan of forgiveness as long as I'm given the opportunity to get even first.
Sue Grafton
#45. You never forget your first kiss. And that's what makes it so hard to forgive my uncle.
Demetri Martin
#46. It's the easiest thing in the world to be kind to someone, to show love, to forgive. You are born with this instinct - it should be your first reaction. NOT violence, anger and hatred! That is something we are taught, it's a Choice You Make.
Michelle Horst
#47. To be pure, forgive yourself.
To love others, forgive them first.
Debasish Mridha
#48. According to Dickens, the first rule of human nature is self-preservation and when I forgive him for writing a character as pathetic as Oliver Twist, I'll thank him for the advice.
Melina Marchetta
