Forgiving Person Quotes

#1. The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that's why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they've really done is they've shifted their relationship with time.

Caroline Myss

#2. . . .perhaps she figured I was already a highly forgiving person, that I did my best to treat shortcomings like hobos I'd found dozing on my porch: take them in and maybe they'll work for you.

Marisha Pessl

#3. The person who is hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons.

Louise Hay

#4. Above all, I was shown that love is supreme. I saw that truly without love we are nothing. We are here to help each other, to care for each other, to understand, forgive, and serve one another. We are here to have love for every person born on earth.

Betty Eadie

#5. I've learned ... That when you plan to get even with someone, you are only letting that person continue to hurt you ... More

Andy Rooney

#6. Throughout my life, I never sought retribution against those who hurt me because I believe in forgiveness. I have practiced forgiving, just as I want to be forgiven. Only God knows what's in a person's heart, his true intentions. He sees and hears all things.

Muhammad Ali

#7. How can you not forgive someone who made you a better person?

Piolo Pascual

#8. A KEY TO BEGIN FORGIVING: Become soft and tender with the person. The first step is to become soft in your mind and spirit. Lower your voice and relax your facial expressions. This reflects honor and humility; and as Proverbs 15:1 suggests, "A gentle answer turns away anger."

Gary Smalley

#9. My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Janine Turner

#10. Maybe it's just easier to hold onto resentment and bitterness.But when you hold onto them, you're imprisoning yourself, not the other person. Not forgiving is pretty heavy baggage to carry around.

Cathy Bryant

#11. Find one thing every day to forgive the other person for. Don't let them know what it is ... just forgive them and let it go.

Deepak Chopra

#12. A godlike person is always giving and forgiving but not expecting anything.

Debasish Mridha

#13. Forgiving someone only absolves you from holding them accountable. When that person has not truly met that accountability, it is a weakness on your end, Miss Rachael. To forgive when they are unrepentant only relieves you of that responsibility.

Deidre Huesmann

#14. Forgiving doesn't mean forgetting, nor does it mean approving of, what someone did. It just means that you're letting go of the anger toward that person.

Frank Sonnenberg

#15. In forgiving others, I free myself towards belonging and wholeness, be it with the person I am forgiving, or with myself.

Sharon Weil

#16. It is better for a leader to make mistake in forgiving (a guilty person) than making a mistake in punishing (an innocent). (Prophet Mohammed - peace be upon him)

Anonymous

#17. If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us ...

Antoinette Bosco

#18. Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

Shirley Hazzard

#19. If you're hiring, if you're the person doing the hiring, forgive a scar or two. Remember that when we were young, we were also idiots. There were just no cameras there to catch it.

Greg Gutfeld

#20. How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

#21. To truly forgive is to allow the other person to forget.

Robert Breault

#22. Forgiveness doesn't make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It's turning back toward being what we really are.

Edward Fahey

#23. To not forgive is to drink a little poison each day and expect the other person to die.

Mary Morrissey

#24. There is someone that I love even though I don't approve of what he does. There is someone I accept though some of his thoughts and actions revolt me. There is someone I forgive though he hurts the people I love the most. That person is ... me.

C.S. Lewis

#25. It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

Jean De La Bruyere

#26. I have discovered that most people who tell me that they cannot forgive a person who wronged them are handicapped by a mistaken understanding of what forgiving is.

Lewis B. Smedes

#27. The truce is that. You forgive all of these moments because you're constantly waiting for the moment when you will be seen. As an equal. As just another person. As another first person. There's a letting go that comes with it.

Claudia Rankine

#28. A PERSON WHO CANNOT FORGIVE HAS FORGOTTEN HOW GREAT A DEBT GOD HAS FORGIVEN THEM.

John Bevere

#29. Anything that starts as a practice often turns into the habit and so can be the case with a person's nature of forgiving himself on his mistakes a few number of times.

Anuj

#30. If you choose to forgive someone who has wronged you rather than to hate that person, you shift the frequency of your Light.

Gary Zukav

#31. If you love a person, you can forgive anything.

Herbert Marshall

#32. That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you'll be free.

Louise Hay

#33. We've all been broken at some point. Forgiving ourselves or another person helps us move forward.

Julia Roberts

#34. We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another.

Marianne Williamson

#35. By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

Gautama Buddha

#36. By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.

Caroline Myss

#37. If you can forgive the person you were, accept the person you are, and believe in the person you will become, you are headed for joy. So celebrate your life.

Barbara Johnson

#38. ...if a person remains in a state of unforgiveness the Spirit of the Lord will allow tormentors to enter him. That's what Christ told Peter when the disciple asked, "Lord, how often shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? Up to seven times?" (Matt. 18:21).

Benny Hinn

#39. Sometimes, of all the people in the world, the one who is the hardest to forgive-as well as perhaps the one who is most in need of our forgiveness-is the person looking back at us in the mirror.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

#40. It was about grace, she decides, something that has been missing from her own life ... She wants to be the kind of person who can bestow unearned kindness on another, replace bitterness with empathy, forgive only for the sake of forgiving.

Emily Giffin

#41. It is not possible that a just God should forgive people who are wicked because another person who was good endured agony by being nailed to a cross.

Rebecca West

#42. It's [the word "sorry"] the most infuriating word in the English language. Just a cheap way to behave badly then shelve responsibility by putting the onus on the other person to be forgiving.

Minette Walters

#43. An irresponsible person is a person who makes vague promises, then breaks his word, blames it on circumstances and expects other people to forgive it.

Ayn Rand

#44. I think forgiveness is absolutely mandatory. When you don't forgive the only person you are hurting is yourself because you are still harboring the anger and the mental anguish.

John Assaraf

#45. A person with a forgiving heart knows where happiness dwells.

Debasish Mridha

#46. Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

Vaclav Havel

#47. We are to have a forgiving spirit even before the other person expresses regret for his wrong.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#48. To forgive someone means to take away the power this person has over you.

Marshall Sylver

#49. We should refrain from anything that seems to be a final judgment of any person ... the Lord alone has the capacity to judge ... And, in all of this we must remember the command to forgive.

Dallin H. Oaks

#50. Other-cheekism is not only a way of purifying the soul, it is also part of every weak person's survival kit.

Quentin Crisp

#51. When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

Catherine Ponder

#52. 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

#53. Forgiving doesn't make the person who hurt you feel better, it makes you feel better.

Chetan Bhagat

#54. To be secure everywhere is the mark of sophistication, to be unshakable is the mark of courage, to be permanently in love with every person is the mark of masculinity or femininity, to forgive is the mark of strength, to govern our senses and passions is the mark of freedom.

Eknath Easwaran

#55. When a person is carrying their sin, it can be quite a load ... I don't know what else to do with your sin but confess and ask God to forgive it.

Johnny Hunt

#56. Forgiveness gives me boundaries because it unhooks me from the hurtful person, and then I can act responsibly, wisely. If I am not forgiving them, I am still in a destructive relationship with them.

Henry Cloud

#57. If you are looking to turn over a new leaf and be more kind and forgiving, I suggest starting with the person you see in the mirror each morning.

Charles F. Glassman

#58. Disciplining a child is easier than disciplining a grown person, and forgiving a child's insolence is easier than forgiving a grown person's impudence.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#59. I do believe I can forgive almost any shortcoming a person may have except lack of enthusiasm ...

Venita VanCaspel

#60. Sometimes the best way to forgive is to let the other person forget.

Robert Breault