Forgive Quotes

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner

Work, Said, Hollywood

Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor

Life, Love, Good

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
Samuel Johnson

Time, Wise, Pain

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson

Past, Understand, Minds

You can forgive people who do not follow you through a philosophical disquisition; but to find your wife laughing when you had tears in your eyes, or staring when you were in a fit of laughter, would go some way towards a dissolution of the marriage.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Marriage, Laughter, Wife

When I am able to resist the temptation to judge others, I can see them as teachers of forgiveness in my life, reminding me that I can only have peace of mind when I forgive rather than judge.
Gerald Jampolsky

Life, Peace, Mind

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Henry Ward Beecher

Others, Himself, Vice

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Great, Angry, Nothing

I really don't think life is about the I-could-have-beens. Life is only about the I-tried-to-do. I don't mind the failure but I can't imagine that I'd forgive myself if I didn't try.
Nikki Giovanni

Life, Failure, Mind

Forgive those who have hurt you.
Les Brown

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.
Tyler Perry

Powerful, Place, Easy

Even though we are deceived, still believe. Though we are betrayed, still forgive. Love completely even those who hate you.
Sun Myung Moon

Love, Hate, Though

God will forgive me. It's his job.
Heinrich Heine

Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.
Euripides

Men, Son, Needs

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Cannot, Often, Bore

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Friends, Ourselves, Faults

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus

Cannot, Unhappy, Himself

Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Ausonius

Yourself, Nothing, Others

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.
Lewis B. Smedes

Evil, Face, Call

But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson

Death, Hurt, Crisis

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

Great, Happy, Deal

Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.
Tyler Perry

Life, Love, God

The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.
Bryant H. McGill

Greatest, Ability

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.
Francis Bacon

Great, Friends, Loss

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

Nature, Brave, Coward

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.
Samuel Butler

Love, Best, Done

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Strong, Revenge, Human

Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman

Understand, Before, Another

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. Wilson

Process, Natural, Loss

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.
Chaim Herzog

Forget, Living, Dead

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