Top 44 Friendship Forgiveness Quotes
#1. When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.
Jimmy Carter
#2. To make a friend, forgiveness is required which burns up all things, leaving only beauty; but to destroy friendship is easy.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#4. Love is about forgiveness and acceptance.
Auliq Ice
#5. To let friendship die away by negligence and silence is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage." ~Samuel Johnson
Edward M. Hallowell
#6. It's a good sign but rare instance when, in a relationship, you find that the more you learn about the other person, the more you continue to desire them. A sturdy bond delights in that degree of youthful intrigue. Love loves its youth.
Criss Jami
#7. Compassion does not have to be a face-to-face relationship. Forgiveness does not imply friendship. Understanding why someone has inflicted pain on us is how we set ourselves free of the past, not how we excuse someone's behaviour so they can continue to abuse us.
Vironika Tugaleva
#9. Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger.
Bill Bradley
#11. Consistently practice love and everything that falls under the category of love: gratitude, laughter, friendship, joy, forgiveness, acceptance, peace, and trust.
Renee Marino
#12. We're on a planet. At the same time. In the Universe ... Let's do something Great Together!
Jeff Byington
#13. Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails, Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
Aberjhani
#14. Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln
#16. A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
Stephen Richards
#17. He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.
H.W. Brands
#19. The greatest is to have a tendency to friendship; this is expressed in the form of tolerance and forgiveness, in the form of service and trust. In whatever form he may express it this is the central theme: the constant desire to prove one's love for humanity, to be the friend of all.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
#20. To hold the power of affection and maintain the roots of love, you must stay trusted.
Auliq Ice
#21. The two families, sundered in the ruin of a friendship, were united again first in new friendship and then in mariage. My grandfather made a peace here that has joined many who would otherwise have been divided. I am the child of his forgiveness.
Wendell Berry
#23. And he who has dwelt with his heart alone, Hears all the music in friendship's tone. So better and better I comprehend How sorrow ever would be our friend.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#24. When God forgives, there is an immediate and
complete change in relationship. Instead of hostility, there is love and acceptance. Instead of enmity, there is friendship.
Billy Graham
#25. Sometimes the measure of friendship isn't your ability to not harm but your capacity to forgive the things done to you and ask forgiveness for your own mistakes.
R. K. Milholland
#26. For love doesn't stand alone, nor can it, but trails like a blazing comet, bringing with it other shining goods - forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, fairness, companionability and friendship, all bound to the love which is at the heart of Jesus's message.
Ian McEwan
#27. For I hope my Friends will pardon me, when I declare, I know none of them without a Fault; and I should be sorry if I could imagine, I had any Friend who could not see mine. Forgiveness, of this Kind, we give and demand in Turn.
Henry Fielding
#28. It's all very well to tell us to forgive our enemies; our enemies can never hurt us very much. But oh, what about forgiving our friends?
Willa Cather
#29. There's a small window of opportunity to apologize sometimes after you've terribly wronged someone. It closes. Sometimes forever, but it never opens wide enough again for a good breeze.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#30. we all love people in our life. way of expressing it may change but the intensity never fluctuates. there are comparisons and fights in any relation because of the same reason of their existence.
Auliq Ice
#31. Undeserved forgiveness. Friendship defined.
Robin Hobb
#32. When I finally get out of bed, the only thing I want to do is go straight to Amy and demand her forgiveness. Maybe we can at least go back to what we had before our fight, even if all we had was an awkward friendship punctuated by significant silences.
Beth Revis
#33. The only way we can change an enemy to a friend is by forgiveness.
Debasish Mridha
#34. The common thread from all those stories was that talking helped, and listening, and time. One day I would find my own place. I couldn't run there, though, because it didn't exist yet; I had to build it myself, out of forgiveness, truth, and terrifying gestures of friendship.
I. W. Gregorio
#35. The worst thing is that we live in a contaminated moral environment. We feel morally ill because we became used to saying something different from what we thought. Concepts such as love, friendship, compassion, humility or forgiveness lost their depth and dimension.
Vaclav Havel
#36. People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.
Vivian Amis
#37. Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
George Foreman
#38. Don't be sorry;
Don't you cry.
It's enough
That you tried.
I love you,
And that won't change.
It's not your fault
Things worked out this way
Margo T. Rose
#39. Sorry' is just a word ... A word that acquires a little bit of strength when uttered by a heart, which believes in its power, but yours is silent.
Irina Serban
#41. Just remember, someday you might be asking for forgiveness. And if that day were to come, you would want it, wouldn't you?
Michele L. Rivera
#42. Friends hurt friends. They don't mean to, but it happens. So friendship is made of forgiveness as much as it is love.
Toni Sorenson
#43. Love fully, even when it gets hard. Give forgiveness, even when you aren't sure the other guy deserves it. And in every friendship you're in, don't forget to actually be friends.
Adriana Locke
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