Grudges And Forgiveness Quotes

#1. The war never leaves

Victoria Aveyard

#2. FORGIVE FAILURE. The corollary to accountability is forgiveness. Things go wrong all the time in relationships, and the healthiest ones move on from them, leaving behind grudges and blame. This is not to say that failure is accepted; rather, that it is acknowledged and understood.

Charlene Li

#3. If you don't care for obscenity, you don't care for the truth.

Tim O'Brien

#4. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

Anne Lamott

#5. Most people are only doing the best that they know how to do.Blaming and holding grudges only brings more pain.

Maggie Cox

#6. The most difficult of decisions are often not the ones in which we cannot determine the correct course; rather the ones in which we are certain of the path but fear the journey.

Richard Paul Evans

#7. There's nothing like real forgiveness, a deep-down forgiveness
where you don't hold any grudges against people. I forgave for the things they
didn't know and for the things they didn't know to do.

Tyler Perry

#8. Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr.

Donna Lynn Hope

#9. We have to remember, when we forgive we're not doing it just for the other person, we're doing it for our own good. When we hold on to unforgiveness and we live with grudges in our hearts, all we're doing is building walls of separation.

Joel Osteen

#10. Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

Criss Jami

#11. One of the most devastating symptoms of pride is the unwillingness to forgive.

Wayne Gerard Trotman

#12. The nature of ambition is that it requires casualties.

Michael Dobbs

#13. I don't have the first clue who he is talking about, because all I worry about is Jerome.

Jerome James

#14. We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

T.D. Jakes

#15. He was a product of a culture where it was generally counterproductive to hold grudges.

H.W. Brands

#16. I wasn't mad. I didn't need to scream and attack a piece of furniture. I just needed someone to like me.

Leila Sales

#17. No, not me.I'm not a good person or a bad person.I'm just here to kill things.

Brandon Sanderson

#18. How you die out in me: down to the last worn-out knot of breath you're there, with a splinter of life.

Paul Celan

#19. I'm sorry. I behaved like a jerk.
You did.
Is that forgiveness?
I'm not sure. I think it's an acknowledgment of imperfection. And an admission that I believe time is too short to hold a grudge.

Janet Mullany

#20. There are things a person does without any reason, without any second thought, maybe they do not hold grudges for long, maybe they just forgive, and there is something strange about that type of person. I admire them.

Shaikh Ashraf

#21. Is there any wonder why the world is where it's at now? just notice the creature sitting near you in a movie house or standing ahead of you in a supermarket line. or giving a State of the Union Address. that the gods have let us go on this long this badly.

Charles Bukowski

#22. Life is so short. The only person you hurt when you stay angry or hold grudges is you. Forgive everyone, including yourself.

Tom Giaquinto

#23. Be happy by forgiving or forgetting or doing both, but we can gain no happiness by holding grudges.

Dinesh Kumar Radhakrishnan

#24. I was the all-American face.

Debra Winger

#25. The weak hold onto grudges;
the great hold onto love.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#26. Men keep their engagements when it is an advantage to both parties not to break them.

Solon

#27. Never waste time holding grudges for people who have wronged you.
Time waits for no one.
Apologise when you are wrong,
Express your love when you should,
Forgive the ones who wronged you,
And appreciate the one who makes efforts to see you smile.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#28. Part of the function of memory is to forget; the omni-retentive mind will break down and produce at best an idiot savant who can recite a telephone book, and at worst a person to whom every grudge and slight is as yesterday's.

Christopher Hitchens

#29. Hold no grudges and practice forgiveness. This is the key to having peace in all your relationships.

Wayne Dyer

#30. It was nice to call my parents and proudly tell them, "My lady garden is going viral." In hindsight, that may have been a poor choice of phrasing.

Jenny Lawson

#31. If we held grudges for all the idiotic things we said and did as freshman and sophomores, the hallways would be silent.

Kenneth Logan

#32. To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

Confucius

#33. You stubborn bastard. Take it from someone who knows firsthand, there's a lot to be said for forgiveness. Grudges seldom hurt anyone except the one bearing them."
"And there's a lot to be said for knocking enemies upside their heads and cracking skulls open."
Ash & Urian

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#34. Some hold grudges for a lifetime, unaware that courageously forgiving those who have wronged us is wholesome and therapeutic.

James E. Faust

#35. A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

William Arthur Ward