Forgiveness Quotes

In relationships, there always is going to be friction. However, if there is one thing that can get the better of this friction, it has got to be forgiveness. Forgiveness always lies at the heart of the matter. When you feel you are wronged or betrayed, just by forgiving you can not only make yourself feel a lot better, you can also make the wrong doer feel better and maybe even a little guilty. Read on to build blocks of familiarity with famous pardons quotations and sayings.

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.
Love Meaningful Religion Compassion
Dalai Lama

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I did a lot of things that I regretted and I certainly paid for my mistakes. You have to go and ask for forgiveness and it wasn't until I really started doing good and doing right, by other people as well as myself, that I really started to feel that guilt go away. So I don't have a problem going to sleep at night.
Good
Mark Wahlberg

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I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Good
Catherine the Great

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Just knowing you don't have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn - and those are all good things.
Good Humbleness
Dick Van Dyke

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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.
People
Jane Fonda

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Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.
Life
Hillary Clinton

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If only I wasn't an atheist, I could get away with anything. You'd just ask for forgiveness and then you'd be forgiven. It sounds much better than having to live with guilt.
Keira Knightley

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Can you really forgive if you can't forget?
Sarah Jessica Parker

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It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
People
Tyler Perry

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Only the brave know how to forgive... a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.
Nature
Laurence Sterne

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God forgive you, but I never can.
Elizabeth I

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The most important thing that I learned in growing up is that forgiveness is something that, when you do it, you free yourself to move on.
Tyler Perry

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The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Friendship Enemies
Walter Winchell

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The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.
Mistakes
Robert Downey Jr.

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Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.
Virtues
Indira Gandhi

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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Friendship
William Blake

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Without forgiveness, there's no future.
Future
Desmond Tutu

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When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Work
Emo Philips

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Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
Love Prayer
H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi

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Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Nothing Enemies
Oscar Wilde

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Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.
Chance
Desmond Tutu

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Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Time Parents Children
Oscar Wilde

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The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.
Heart
Honoré de Balzac

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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher

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Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Courage Mistakes
Bruce Lee

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Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.
Sun
Desmond Tutu

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Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy

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Forgiveness is God's command.
Martin Luther

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Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.
Heart Funny
William Arthur Ward

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Things happen for a reason, and the only thing you can do is at night time get on your knees and ask God for forgiveness for anything that you did that you didn't feel was right.
Time God
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
Saint Augustine

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Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost

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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
Mistakes
Les Brown

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I think there are different levels of forgiveness.
Catherine Oxenberg

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Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.
Greatness
Robert Frost

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When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Greatness
Princess Diana

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The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.
Glory Religion
William Blake

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Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.
Revenge
Desmond Tutu

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Forgiveness is important in families, especially when there are so many secrets that need to be healed - for the most part, every family's got them.
Family Confidential
Tyler Perry

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Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.
Greatness
Billy Graham

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It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou

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If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn.
Friedrich Nietzsche

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Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.
Kate Hudson

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Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.
Friendship Love
George Foreman

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Forgive those who have hurt you.
Hurt
Les Brown

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You've just got to have a sense of respect for the person you have children with. Anger doesn't help anybody. Ultimately you have to say forgiveness is important, and honoring what you had together is important. But it's easy to say and harder to do.
Anger Respect
Nicole Kidman

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Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain

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Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
Society
W. H. Auden

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In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.
Rooney Mara

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I am 100% in the camp that says forgiveness is mostly about the forgiver.
Hillary Clinton

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If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.
Dreams
Nelson Mandela

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Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.
Elbert Hubbard

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The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.
Excitement
Elbert Hubbard

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I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a way to bring awareness in tandem with forgiveness and love.
Love
Brie Larson

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In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.
Bible
Hillary Clinton

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Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.
Compassion Sweet
William Shakespeare

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Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne'er pardon who have done wrong.
John Dryden

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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
Courage
Maya Angelou

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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
Henry Ward Beecher

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I find forgiveness to be really healthy.
Ben Affleck

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The heart of who I am as a person and as a man is forgiveness, after forgiving my father for a lot of things that were done when I was child.
Heart
Tyler Perry

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Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.
Community Repentance
Billy Graham

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Consent to me to make your Diwali more bright and colorful with the enlightenment of wishes of my heart, hope this auspicious Diwali burn your old bad period and light your way in good period.
Diwali Past Carnival Future
Anonymous

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