Top 100 Forgive Ourselves Quotes
#1. 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
#2. I'm beginning to get the feeling that confession is what we need in order to forgive ourselves.
Shane Kuhn
#3. I have only ever known Guilt to have one weakness, one not easily given and not easily found: Forgiveness ... In truth, Guilt's strength lies not in the failure of others to grant us forgiveness, but in our failure to forgive ourselves.
Kelseyleigh Reber
#4. First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.
Elizabeth Lesser
#5. Help us to forgive ourselves as we struggle in our process of forgiving others."
~R. Alan Woods [2013]
R. Alan Woods
#6. We need to learn to love the flawed, imperfect things that we create, and to forgive ourselves for creating them. Regret doesen't remind us what we did badly, it reminds us what we know we could do better.
Kathryn Schulz
#7. Patience is unpleasant to desperate people;
few are calm when the thorn is in the wound.
We lose patience when others delay us,
yet quickly forgive ourselves when we delay others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#8. That we need to ask for forgiveness even when we believe we've done nothing wrong." She paused, as if wondering whether she should continue. "And to forgive ourselves. That's usually the hardest kind of forgiveness.
Karen White
#9. We need not forgive ourselves," he (Augustus) said. "It has been a marriage. It has been better than most.
John Williams
#10. It is just as necessary to forgive ourselves as it is to forgive others, and the principal reason why forgiveness seemed so difficult is because we have neglected to forgive ourselves.
Christian D. Larson
#11. On a basic level, it's actually very simple, Ella. Dr. Hakim's words. Not one single person on this planet is perfect. Every single one of us is deeply flawed. Either we accept that fact and forgive ourselves for the mistakes we're bound to make, or we let them destroy us. But
Harper Bliss
#12. Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again.
Ernest Holmes
#13. The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.
James Van Praagh
#14. Unlike film, real life rarely provides an opportunity for a retake," Ben said. "Perhaps that is why I like film so much. But I do think we have to give ourselves the same amount of leeway that we give others. Forgive ourselves. Have pity on ourselves. And perhaps even love ourselves a little." (197)
Linda Olsson
#15. The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.
Ray Bradbury
#16. It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
Steve Maraboli
#17. When we come face-to-face with the tender, forgiving eye of our Redeemer, only then will we gain the power to forgive ourselves - and those who have used us. In light of the forgiveness Christ has offered us, how can we offer less to those who have hurt us?
Leslie Ludy
#18. It's not always enough to be forgiven by someone, in most cases we have to forgive ourselves first.
Paulo Coelho
#19. To forgive others, in order to forgive ourselves, because in their roles as our mirrors, they have been nothing other than a tool to our lack of self-love, a lack of self-recognition, and a lack of self-respect.
Human Angels
#20. In this life, many things happen in which we play a shameful part. Those of us who are strong forgive ourselves and go on. The weak wallow in their shame and allow it to devour them. There is no one of us without sin, child. There ought to be some comfort in that.
Karleen Koen
#21. I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.
C.S. Lewis
#22. Caught in the moorless place between young adulthood and middle age, we were just learning how to forgive ourselves.
Chloe Benjamin
#23. The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.
Lewis B. Smedes
#25. We can only forgive the world to the extent that we forgive ourselves for being in it.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#26. Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
Stephen Covey
#27. None of us are bad people. We float around and we run across each other and we learn about ourselves, and we make mistakes and we do great things. We hurt others, we hurt ourselves, we make others happy and we please ourselves. We can and should forgive ourselves and each other for that.
Dan Harmon
#28. Accept, forgive and forget. Forgive not only the people who hurt us, but also forgive ourselves, accepting whatever is the outcome, then forget the wrongs, learn from them and move on. Holding on to the guilt and pain would just make life miserable for us.
Kcat Yarza
#29. In order to love others, we have to love ourselves deeply enough, to be able to forgive ourselves and become responsible, with self respect and dignity. This self love is Divine Love, for oneself and for all.
Gian Kumar
#30. We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do
we do it all the time.
Alice Munro
#31. If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.
Joel Osteen
#32. We need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done. You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened.
Mitch Albom
#33. It's toughest to forgive ourselves. So it's probably best to start with other people. It's almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.
Patty Duke
#34. God doesn't expect perfection. All he asks is that we learn from our mistakes and try to do better in the future. He forgives us far more easily than we often forgive ourselves. He also heals the brokenhearted and saves those whose spirit is crushed.
Irene Hannon
#35. It's not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn't do. All the things we should have done.
Mitch Albom
#36. We all must learn to dig down deep inside, trust that inner voice, and not be afraid to face and forgive ourselves.
Darren Johnson
#37. We will only begin to forgive when we can look upon the wrongdoers as ourselves, neither better nor worse. We need to remember that we coexist as mortals in the world, together, the wronged and the wrongdoer, and that, in our common humanity, the situation could readily be reversed.
Leo Buscaglia
#38. The cruelest thing is love that leads us to deal with the parts of ourselves that we do not want to see, and this is what, in fact, we do not forgive each other.
Luigina Sgarro
#39. Often what prevents us from seeing beauty in the outside world is the fact that we fail to see beauty in ourselves and other people. Forgiveness is the key that can unlock this door for us.
Anthony J. Ciorra
#40. When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.
Genevieve Gerard
#41. The Apostle Paul in his letter to the Romans said that those who pass judgment on others are 'inexcusable.' The moment we judge someone else, he explained, we condemn ourselves, for none is without sin. Refusing to forgive is a grievous sin - one the Savior warned against.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#42. no matter what you feel in your heart, no matter what situation you're put through, you can't make exceptions for God's Word. If Jesus tells us to forgive, we forgive. He never tells us to trust that person again or make ourselves vulnerable to their attacks. He only tells us to forgive.
Ashley Williams
#43. All too often women believe it is a sign of commitment, an expression of love, to endure unkindness or cruelty, to forgive and forget. In actuality, when we love rightly we know that the healthy, loving response to cruelty and abuse is putting ourselves out of harm's way.
Bell Hooks
#44. 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
#45. Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.
Brennan Manning
#46. Whenever we forgive, in small ways at home, or in great ways between nations, we free ourselves from the past.
Jack Kornfield
#47. When we don't forgive, we're not hurting the other person. We're not hurting the company that did us wrong. We're not hurting God. We're only hurting ourselves.
Joel Osteen
#48. We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy.
Nelson Mandela
#49. For as we forgive, we are forgiven; as we condemn others, we are ourselves condemned. Thus in patience condemn not, neither find fault; not condoning, not agreeing, but let thine own life so shine that others, seeing thy patience, knowing thy understanding, comprehending thy peace, may take hope.
Edgar Cayce
#50. Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.
Caroline Myss
#51. The first step to loving someone else is to recognize the evil in ourselves, so we can forgive them.
Veronica Roth
#52. the first step to loving anyone is to recognize the same evil in ourselves, so we're able to forgive them." "Is
Veronica Roth
#53. The only person we have the right or the power to forgive is ourselves. For everything else there is the Art of Acceptance.
Rebecca O'Dwyer Centred Woman
#54. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
Stephen Richards
#56. We must forgive those we feel have wronged us, not because they deserve to be forgiven but because we love ourselves so much we don't want to keep paying for the injustice ... when someone can touch a wound and it no longer hurts you then you know you have truly forgiven.
Miguel Ruiz
#57. When we respond to our pain and suffering with love, understanding, and acceptance - for ourselves, as well as others - over time, we can let go of our anger, even when we've been hurt to the core. But that doesn't mean we ever forget.
Sharon Salzberg
#58. Forgive us for relying on our own wisdom and strength; for the hours we spend trying to rescue ourselves from pain, suffering, and sin, when you have already rescued us in your Son.
Barbara R. Duguid
#59. To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#61. Be gentle with yourself, learn to love yourself, to forgive yourself, for only as we have the right attitude toward ourselves can we have the right attitude toward others.
Wilferd Peterson
#62. God forgives us, as - when - we forgive them who injure us - and ourselves. These last weeks I think I have understood what many times in the past I thought I knew - but we never know - we never reach the end of understanding - the understanding of God - the mystery of his love ...
Lucy Beckett
#63. The way to win our heart back is to venture again, to risk giving, receiving and trusting again, and of course to risk getting hurt again, but deciding to forgive and to no longer use the hurt or fear to keep ourselves in prison.
Nick Williams
#64. Forgiveness is the only way to heal. We can choose to forgive because we feel compassion for ourselves.
Miguel Ruiz
#65. Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
#66. 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
#67. When we forgive, we free ourselves from the bitter ties that bind us to the one who hurt us.
Dave Pelzer
#68. Forgive us as we forgive- we are offered forgiveness on no other terms. To refuse it is to refuse Gods mercy for ourselves.
C.S. Lewis
#69. Rightly looked upon,' mused Gotthold, 'it is ourselves that we cannot forgive, when we refuse forgiveness to our friend. Some strand of our own misdoing is involved in every quarrel.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#70. We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.
Louise Hay
#71. The only way to free ourselves from the destructive influence of counterfeit gods is to turn back to the true one. The living God, who revealed himself both at Mount Sinai and on the Cross, is the only Lord who, if you find him, can truly fulfill you, and, if you fail him, can truly forgive you.
Timothy Keller
#72. When we truly forgive in our hearts, not only do we purify ourselves from the heavy burdens of negative karma but we begin to create a new space for positive energy to enter this world. When we forgive, we are no longer chained to the negative actions we have created in the past.
Christopher Dines
#73. The most important person ever to forgive is yourself. That is because whatever we really think, feel, or believe about ourselves gets projected out onto the world and other people.
Catherine Carrigan
#74. The soul force we need in America today, more than any other, is the spirit of atonement. We need to humble ourselves before God and ask forgiveness for the things we have done wrong. We need to ask God to forgive us for our arrogance.
Marianne Williamson
#75. We experience God to the extent to which we love, forgive, and focus on the good in others and ourselves.
Marianne Williamson
#76. To forgive freely, is what we owe to our enemy; to forget not, is what we owe to ourselves.
Amelia Barr
#77. Forgiveness is inherently powerful enough to extend itself wholly and completely to us even when we are the ones in need of forgiving ourselves.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#78. Help us, oh God, to remember that we are Americans. United not by race or religion or by blood, but to our commitment to freedom and justice for all. When we focus on ourselves, when we fight each other, when we forget you, forgive us.
Rick Warren
#79. Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him.
Pope Francis
#80. One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#81. We are supposed to forgive everyone; everyone includes ourselves.
Denis Waitley
#82. God allows us to have a personal relationship with himself and he forgives and loves us as children. If God forgives our such great sins against his Son should we not forgive such little sins against ourselves?
Greg Gordon
#83. In order to forgive reason for the evil it has wrought on the majority of men, we must imagine for ourselves what man would be without his reason. 'Tis a necessary evil.
Nicolas Chamfort
#84. Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone in debt to us. And do not bring us into temptation. Luke 11:4
Beth Moore
#85. It is quite hard when we do things that we couldn't forgive before in others,. but that's how we forgive others and ourselves at the same time. Life pushes us to those situations.
Robin Sacredfire
#86. To forgive another person means you have first condemned them. When we condemn others we condemn ourselves.
Bryant McGill
#87. By creating an image of low self- esteem within ourselves, we bomb and terrorize our true self. When we refuse to forgive, we create an insensible war from old grudges. When we allow stress to impede our healthy flow of energy, we create the weapon of destruction that kills humanity.
Forrest Curran
#88. Forgive everybody for everything. Just forgive and start - most of us can't start with ourselves. We have to forgive the people we think did things to us. So that's fine. Start there - wherever. Start with the dog who peed on the rug. I don't care where you start, just do it.
Iyanla Vanzant
#89. Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.
Stephen Richards
#91. If we are going to be happy and have any chance at growing then we must learn how to forgive others ... and ourselves.
Yehuda Berg
#92. Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#93. It is we humans that need to forgive others and ourselves for all wrongs, no matter what they may be. Only by forgiveness can we move higher up in our ascension and see in truth, there was never really anything there that needed forgiving
Timothy Moran
#94. Sometimes we need to forgive those who have hurt us and ourselves so that one can move on
Robin Maddison
#95. When the Lord commands that we must forgive all men, that includes forgiving ourselves.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#96. As Buddhist monks, our task is to bring ourselves resolutely more and more into light, to forgive and forget, to forget those who create problems for us because to remember them is only to keep problems is mind.
Frederick Lenz
#97. Sometimes we want to keep the battle going...until at last we we cut ourselves free. I don't forgive you to give to you, I forgive you to give to me.
Kate McGahan
#98. We cannot instantaneously force ourselves to forgive - and forgiveness happens at a different pace for everyone and is dependent on the particulars of any given situation.
Sharon Salzberg
#99. When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.
John Bruna
#100. To be happy is easy enough if we give ourselves, forgive others, and live with thanksgiving, No self centered person, no ungrateful soul can ever be happy, much less make anyone else happy. Life is giving, not getting.
Joseph Fort Newton
