Top 100 Forgive Quotes
#1. Forgive means to give a chance to reform, so be a forgiver
Azhar Sabri
#2. And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
He wished that he had never met any of them.
Melina Marchetta
#3. There are disagreements and conflicts in the relationship, but each individual cares enough about the other to make up and forgive. (Dogs forgive us far easier than we forgive them.) Parents
Suzanne Hetts
#4. But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson
#5. I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.
Emil Cioran
#6. Jesus teaches us to bless our enemies (Matthew 5:44) To bless those who curse us (Luke 6:28). To "never avenge yourselves" (Romans 12:19). When we truly forgive someone, we need to come to the place where we can bless them and desire God's blessing also on their lives.
Greg Gordon
#7. Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.
Stephen Covey
#8. The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Bryant McGill
#9. Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.
George William Russell
#10. Fate might forgive greed, or gluttony, or even bloodlust, but it never ignores being ignored.
Erik Bundy
#11. But haven't all ambitious people something of the monstrous about them? You, sir, for instance, if you will forgive me, are a little bit monstrous.
Mervyn Peake
#12. To resent and remember brings strife; to forgive and forget brings peace.
J.B. Priestley
#13. Being a parent is a life sentence. From the day that kid is born until the day you die. And then some. Mum, there is nothing to forgive. You gave me life. And, hey, you're not crazy anymore. Everybody thinks I am. Real funny, mum.
Christopher Titus
#14. Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.
Francis Quarles
#15. There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's
Jed Rubenfeld
#16. Papa's always had the ability to remember the good things and let the bad ones go."
"Not a bad ability."
" ... I'm not sure. I think we have to remember it all before we can forgive it.
Madeleine L'Engle
#17. 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
#18. To forgive, you must love the world and everything in it. Anything less is hypocrisy.
Psyche Roxas-Mendoza
#19. When Allah grants us the sense to ask Him for forgiveness, then He has granted us a huge favor. It's a sign that He wants to forgive us.
Nouman Ali Khan
#20. I don't think a man can hurt another, not in any important way. Neither hurt him nor help him. I have really nothing to forgive you.
Ayn Rand
#21. From now on, there would be no other oaths but this, no other contracts, no other obligations. Never forgive, never forget.
Sarah J. Maas
#22. Therefore, dark past,
I'm about to do it.
I'm about to forgive you
for everything.
Mary Oliver
#23. You cannot win your future if you cannot forgive your past
Ikechukwu Joseph
#25. Dance with her, and she will forgive much. Dance well, and she will forgive anything.
Robert Jordan
#27. The only true way to forgive someone, it seems to me, is to forget what they have done to you and, in turn, forget them. Whether that is possible is another question.
Vu Tran
#28. I'll walk away from you because I have to, but I won't walk away from my daughter. If I do, I'll never forgive myself. So if there's any part of you which still loves me, please don't ask me to.
Zoe McKnight
#29. 28Lord, forgive me, my parents, and whoever enters my house as a believer. Forgive believing men and women but bring nothing but ruin down on the evildoers!
Anonymous
#30. Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.
Edgar Degas
#31. I'm not moping. (Ewan)
Oh, forgive me. See, where I come from an upside-down smile means you're frowning, and if you're frowning while withdrawn from everyone and everything, it means you're moping. I guess here in your cave, the world is backward and a frown means you're happy. (Nora)
Kinley MacGregor
#32. Reason to rule, mercy to forgive: The first is law, the last prerogative.
Louis Dudek
#33. Never forget, God is more interested in our holiness than He is in our happiness. The next time you feel the sting of God's correction, ask yourself the question, "Of what do I need to repent?" When you do, God will forgive. That is the way He is.
Todd Friel
#34. There is one thing God's love cannot do. It cannot forgive the unrepentant sinner.
Billy Graham
#35. When you slip up and let yourself back into old, toxic patterns of thinking, forgive yourself before you try to fix yourself.
Vironika Tugaleva
#36. Why, it almost makes one forgive the rain, does it not - when the sun comes out like this, at the end of it all.
Eleanor Catton
#37. If you think you need to forgive anyone ... you got it all wrong.
Vivian Amis
#38. 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
#39. I believe that anybody with Mandela's capacity to endure hardship and then forgive is a born leader and example to us all.
Rory McIlroy
#40. God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.
Charles Spurgeon
#42. He only shot one person," Nick remarked. "But the night is young." ...
Forgive him, he has no manners."
I get by on good looks," Nick said.
Sarah Rees Brennan
#43. So I know she forgives me, just as I forgive her. Thomas Edison's last words were: 'It very beautiful over there.' I do not know where there is, bit I believe it's somewhere, and I hope it is beautiful.
John Green
#44. A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
E.W. Howe
#45. To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that summum bonum, the greatest good.
Desmond Tutu
#46. To forgive or not to forgive ... are those my only choices?
Natsuki Takaya
#47. You're probably right. The unruliness of the women in your family must go back for generations. You're like a plague upon the land." "So long as we're also a plague upon angels, I'm sure everyone else will forgive us." "Oh, you're definitely a plague upon at least one angel. Is
Susan Ee
#48. I have often heard it said that the Irish are too ready to forgive. It is a noble failing.
Katharine Tynan
#49. Before you act, listen.
Before you react, think.
Before you spend, earn.
Before you criticize, wait.
Before you pray, forgive.
Before you quit, try.
William Arthur Ward
#50. To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend.
Mahatma Gandhi
#51. Forgiveness is a religious imperative: forgive those who trespass against you. But it is also a very practical strategy based on the belief that there are profound limits to what the formal mechanisms of retribution can accomplish.
Malcolm Gladwell
#52. The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.
Stephen Richards
#53. I have learned through repeated experiences that in order to heal, I MUST forgive. The forgiveness is not for the transgressor. The forgiveness is for ME.
Sharon E. Rainey
#55. We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.
Ann Brashares
#56. My confession begins," Father S said, "as the confessions of many men begin - with three words"
"Father forgive me?" Michael hazarded a guess. Father S signed.
"I met Eleanor.
Tiffany Reisz
#57. Mandela stands alone in possessing all of the qualities of other great men, but has one quality which is transcendent ... his ability to forgive and to place others above himself.
Kevin Allen
#59. When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.
John Bruna
#60. There was once a spirited feral mustang broken in by her stern rider. It was a harmonious relationship for the most part but, like any relationship, she tested the boundaries he placed on her and threw him ... Would the rider, having suffered his own wound, retaliate, discipline or forgive?
Donna Lynn Hope
#61. Still, I am angry with him. I am very angry with him. With my poor dead defenseless husband, I am furious as I was rarely - perhaps never - furious with him, in life. How can I forgive you, you've ruined both our lives.
Joyce Carol Oates
#62. Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#63. If I were a better version of me, I would not react faster than I think, would not be wounded when no harm was intended, would understand before too much time had passed to forgive ...
Arthur Phillips
#64. Yes. I love you. I should have told you sooner, Lina. Not that I deserve to have your love after what I did to you. I wasn't there for you when you needed me. And I promised you I wouldn't let you down again. I'm not a guy who goes back on his promises. Can you ever forgive me for that?
Jaci Burton
#65. The Lord does not forgive excuses, He forgives sin.
Rick Joyner
#66. Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.
Laurence Sterne
#67. 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
#68. The dead can forgive. The dead can be forgiven. The rest of us have better things to do. (Monza Murcatto)
Joe Abercrombie
#69. The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
Anne Rice
#70. Genuine spiritual movement should forgive and encourage.
Radhanath Swami
#71. We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#72. Bravery doesn't forgive stupidity. Always think. Think what's possible.
J.K. Rowling
#73. I've always believed that you must be able to appreciate the things that people can give you, and forgive them for the things they can't.
Elizabeth Isaacs
#74. Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.
Jonathan Lockwood Huie
#75. No ... no ... We never forgive those we can understand ... We can only forgive those who wound us for no reason at all ...
F Scott Fitzgerald
#76. Instead of exhibiting talent in the hope that the world would forgive their eccentricities, they have exhibited only their eccentricities, in the hope that the world would give them credit for talent.
Charles Caleb Colton
#77. Blow your own horn loud. If you succeed, people will forgive your noise; if you fail, they'll forget it.
William Feather
#78. When we forgive, our emotions evolve and reveal the futility of carrying the baggage of anger, antipathy, hostility and hatred. We emerge out of those dark corridors of fear, angst and insecurity.
Balroop Singh
#79. Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.
Kahlil Gibran
#80. When you realize that you're guilty of the same sins that others are, you realize that you shouldn't bear grudges against them, but you should forgive and love them instead.
Lois Tverberg
#81. But the quality of human beings is only one - and that is how much they love and forgive.
Nirmala Srivastava
#82. You can make of fool of others but not you. ... You can forgive others for their mistakes, but not you for your own mistakes.
Girdhar Joshi
#84. Don't forgive people until they understand their mistakes.
M.F. Moonzajer
#85. 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
#87. We forgive and forget just to give another chance to the person we love or think we love.
M. Howson
#88. If you do not forgive, you are demanding something your offender does not choose to give, even if it is only confession of what he did. This "ties" him to you and ruins boundaries. Let the dysfunctional family you came from go. Cut it loose, and you will be free.
Henry Cloud
#89. I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Nikki Giovanni
#90. 21Then Peter came up and said to him, "Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times?" 22Jesus said to him, "I do not say to you seven times, but seventy times seven. [87] 23"Therefore the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a king
Anonymous
#91. Doctors troubleshoot the human body - they never got a chance to debug it. (It took God one day to design, prototype, and release that product; talk about schedule pressure! I guess we can forgive priority-two bugs like bunions and male pattern baldness.)
David J. Agans
#92. I'm trying to forget just as much as you probably are. Look, I'm not stupid. I know that we can never be the same. But I still wouldn't change anything. It was the plan and it worked. You're not dead and that's worth it to me. Maybe you'll forgive me someday.
James Dashner
#93. I won't forgive I won't forget. Let hell open and rain my wrath down on them all. I will not be stopped and I have no mercy left inside me. I am death and I revel in the killings of my enemies. Bring me them all until I'm drunk on their blood.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#94. Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!
Pope Francis
#95. I can forgive a man's past faults, his present shortcomings, and his future failures if every minute of every day he loves me like it's his religion.
Nicole Williams
#96. I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chron. 7:14).
Arthur Wallis
#97. I think you're a wonder. You're beautiful. You're mature. You are, I admit, vastly more experienced than I am. That's what threw me. I was thrown. Forgive me.
Philip Roth
#98. You don't choose these people and in the not choosing you learn tolerance. You learn to forgive.
Heather Babcock
#99. We have to believe that forgiveness is still possible even if those we committed crimes against will not forgive us. It means what matters most is how we live now. It's what redemption is all about.
Heather Anastasiu
#100. The pow'r I have on you is to spare you / The malice towards you, to forgive you.
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William Shakespeare
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