Top 89 Quotes About Forgiving Yourself
#1. You're human. You'll screw up. Denying that is crazy. Forgiving yourself has all the benefits of self-esteem without making you a narcissist that's out of touch with reality.
David D. Burns
#2. Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.
David D. Burns
#3. Forgiveness is healing. Especially forgiving yourself
Alyson Noel
#4. Christ, too, will forgive, if only you attain to forgiving yourself ... Oh, no, no, do not believe that I have spoken a blasphemy: even if you do not attain to reconciliation with yourself and forgiveness of yourself, even then He will forgive you for your intention and for your great suffering.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#5. We can make choices, but we can be vulnerable; we can do the wrong thing, but the wrong thing for all the right reasons. I think it [life] is basically about forgiveness, and not about someone else forgiving you, but you forgiving yourself. I think we all want a lot of that.
Kelli O'Hara
#6. There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you've ever done, every circumstance you've ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It's a lot of work, actually.
Marianne Williamson
#7. Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.
Edward M. Hallowell
#8. Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#9. The only thing I can talk about is just forgiving yourself, because I do not have everything together. And so I tell people: No, you should see my house, it's a mess.
Susan Sarandon
#11. The past doesn't determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.
Marianne Williamson
#12. There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.
Eckhart Tolle
#13. Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, "Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me," and beat very loudly the war drum.
Alexander Payne
#14. Forgiving yourself is the first step, forgetting, well it never goes away. Moving forward and walking with one foot in front of the other does get you somewhere. Just keep walking.
Shellie Palmer
#15. By not forgiving yourself you are limiting your ability to give to others.
Danielle Joworski
#16. But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable.
Sue Augustine
#17. forgiving also applies to forgiving yourself.
Abi Ketner
#18. Beauty is an understanding of what you have, and it's forgiving yourself of what you don't have, and appreciating all of it.
Jill Scott
#19. Yogi Bhajan shows us that a key to being the master of your own mind is to learn how to forgive yourself. So for today, just for one minute, practice forgiving yourself.
Gabrielle Bernstein
#20. 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
#21. Having asked God for forgiveness, accept release, then truly forgive yourself and turn your back definitely on the matter.
Norman Vincent Peale
#22. But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself.
Jodi Picoult
#23. 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
#24. Do you want to be right, or do you want to be happy? Forgive yourself and stop punishing yourself.
Louise Hay
#25. You deserve to live your best life now, so set yourself free by forgiving and letting go of that hurt you've been holding on to.
Jamie Larbi
#26. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
Bill Cosby
#27. Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself - have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
Mary Anne Radmacher
#28. You should be forgiving when others make mistakes, but not when the mistakes are in you. You should be patient under duress yourself, but not when it affects others.
Zicheng Hong
#29. Love is daily admitting to yourself, your spouse, and God that you are not able to love this way without God's protecting, providing, forgiving, rescuing, and delivering grace.
Paul David Tripp
#30. Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.
D. Patrick Miller
#31. ... Of his sins [Heavenly Father] does not want [man] to think [on them] too much: once they are repented, the sooner the man turns his attention outward, the better [Heavenly Father] is pleased.
C.S. Lewis
#32. When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.
Stephen Richards
#33. Silently repeat to yourself: I forgive myself for any ways in which I knowingly or unknowingly caused hurt or harm to any living being or creature. I forgive all who have ever hurt or harmed me. Everything between us is now cleared up.
Michael Beckwith
#34. You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.
Maya Angelou
#35. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
Stephen Richards
#36. There's no operation where you can have your anger cut out. But if you work on yourself, as you get better, you'll be more capable of seeing others as flawed human beings. That makes it easier to forgive.
Robin Quivers
#37. We might say that there can be pity in its full-fledged form only where there is also mercy for self: for the self engulfed by a sense of its own utter blackness can never win through to a sufficient recognition of the sorrows of the other as other.
Martha C. Nussbaum
#38. When you forgive, you're not doing God a favor, you are giving yourself the gift of freedom.
Joyce Meyer
#39. Forgive yourself and forgive others around you.
Raven-Symone
#40. The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven.
Saint Augustine
#41. That's a wonderful side effect of leather pants: when you pee yourself in them, they're more forgiving than jeans.
Slash
#42. 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
#43. Love yourself-accept yourself-forgive yourself-and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.
Leo Buscaglia
#44. Forgiveness is a gift to yourself. It frees you from the past, past experiences, and past relationships. It allows you to live in the present time. When you forgive yourself and forgive others, you are indeed free.
Louise Hay
#45. Getting angry is like burning yourself with other people's fires. Let is stop by being kind and forgiving like water.
Debasish Mridha
#47. Forgiveness is a gift to the one who is hurting.
Josee D'Amore
#48. A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.
Stephen Richards
#49. Forgiveness is mental floss! Build the capacity to forgive slowly - start with little unkind acts, otherwise you'll sabotage yourself. When we forgive, we forgive the actor, not the action.
Stephen Levine
#51. Love is forgiving, accepting, moving on, embracing, and all encompassing. And if you're not doing that for yourself, you cannot do that with anyone else.
Steve Maraboli
#53. Being forgiven is like having all the worst bits of yourself stuffed into a balloon and then having that balloon set free.
Shannon Wiersbitzky
#54. There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings.
Lee L Jampolsky
#55. Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
Leo Buscaglia
#56. 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
#57. Don't see it as forgiving him. See it as allowing yourself to be happy. What will you do with the misery you have chosen? Will you eat misery?
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#59. I've found the best thing to do is to really be loving, kind, forgiving and compassionate with yourself. There are some wonderful practices for that which I talk about in Love For No Reason.
Marci Shimoff
#60. Ask God for forgiveness. Seek forgiveness from those you have wronged. Forgive those who have wronged you. Forgive yourself.
C. Scott Grow
#61. Forgiveness is the most powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, you can forget about achieving true success in your life.
Wayne Dyer
#62. How do children learn to correct their mistakes?
By watching how you correct yours.
How do children learn to overcome their failures?
By watching how you overcome yours.
How do children learn to treat themselves with forgiveness?
By watching you forgive yourself.
William Martin
#63. The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.
Gerald Jampolsky
#64. You can never forgive yourself without forgiving others. Forgive others to find and create peace in your soul.
Debasish Mridha
#65. You can literally go on and on and on with the blame game, but let me tell you, it only causes more heartache. You will be no better off and will still have no answers.
Sharon Critchfield
#66. When we have opened ourselves to give forgiveness or to accept forgiveness we have opened ourselves to touch the Divine.
Genevieve Gerard
#67. People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.
Richard Simmons
#68. Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.
Wayne Dyer
#69. Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you've created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#70. Embrace and love all of yourself - past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.
Melody Beattie
#71. Forgiving is, first of all, a way of helping yourself to get free of the unfair pain somebody caused you.
Lewis B. Smedes
#72. To find universal peace, teach yourself and everyone else to be kind, compassionate, and forgiving.
Debasish Mridha
#73. Pause and remember - It is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!
Jennifer Young
#74. The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.
Mignon McLaughlin
#75. To err is human; to forgive people and yourself for poor behavior is to be sensible and realistic.
Albert Ellis
#76. Can you forgive her? Can you do that?
There was no response.
Because if you can start to forgive, then it will become easier.
And?
And then you will be able to forgive yourself - and ask others to forgive you.
Alexander McCall Smith
#77. Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.
Jodi Picoult
#78. I don't know whether it is any use forgiving people or not. Yes, it is, it makes you feel more comfortable yourself.
L.M. Montgomery
#79. The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
Confucius
#80. Although you should not erase your responsibility for the past, when you make the past your jailer, you destroy your future. It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility.
John O'Donohue
#81. I did then what I knew best, when I knew better, I did better. Maya Angelo
Maya Angelou
#82. The people who did you wrong or who didn't quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
Jane Fonda
#83. Forgiveness is not a gift you give someone else, forgiveness is a gift you give to yourself.
Donald L. Hicks
#84. As you pray for forgiveness, you will find yourself forgiving others. As you thank God for His kindness, you will think of others, by name, who need your kindness. Again, that experience will surprise you every day, and over time it will change you.
Henry B. Eyring
#85. By becoming forgiving, fill yourself with love, and then, with profound kindness, give it away.
Debasish Mridha
#86. Forgive yourself and be ready to forgive yourself in the future. You're gonna screw up. It's okay.
David D. Burns
#87. Forgive yourself for what you think you've done or not done. At every moment, you had your reasons for all of your actions and decisions. You've always done the best that you could do. Forgive yourself.
Doreen Virtue
#88. Be gentle and forgiving with yourself, abandon any and all shame, and refuse to engage in any self-repudiation.
Wayne Dyer
#89. 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
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