Forgive Quotes

If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.

When you make a decision to forgive it's a decision that you have to make intellectually.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.

When people realize that they have been forgiven of everything, it becomes a little bit easier for them to forgive others.

Forgive me if I sleep until I wake up.

I hope that people learn from my mistake and I hope that the fans forgive me.

Can you really forgive if you can't forget?

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects; and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices.

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

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

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

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

You can forgive yourself a great deal.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.

It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.

People can forgive each other.

God will not forgive us if we fail.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

I'm very forgiving so I forgive most things, really.

You're supposed to remember, and still forgive.

I would forgive my mom, but she's going to have to admit she did some things that were wrong.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.

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.

Forgive your enemies, but first get even.

To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

Those who easily forgive invite offenses.

I have always hated celebrities lecturing people on politics. So forgive me. But I am passionate about this country. I am equally passionate about the potential of the people who live here.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

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.

In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.

Keep all your personalities out of your work. Forget and forgive.

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

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

He'd forgiven who he needed to forgive, let go of what he needed to, and accepted himself as he was. Archibald Alexander Leach, Cary Grant, and all.

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

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one.

The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wiggle out of one.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

I auditioned for Robert Redford once and I was so starstruck I couldn't even speak. I had a mic wire at a screen test clipped to me and then I got kind of nervous and I paced in a circle and then took a step and tripped and fell on my face. You just have to forgive yourself and keep going on.

God will forgive me; that's his business.

Of course God will forgive me; that's His job.

I'm generally slow to anger, quick to forgive, and I take in information before making decisions. So no matter how controversial the decision, my general demeanour is to put on white lab coat and gloves and look at the evidence, weigh the arguments and see what makes sense.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn't forgive others.

If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter's rights of the heart.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.

God forgive me if I do wrong in following with ardor the strongest instincts of my nature.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

I remember everything but forgive anyway.

I have a dream that America will pray and God will forgive us our sins.

I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.

God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.

There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

The public seldom forgive twice.

We think of the noble object for which the professor appears tonight, we may be assured that the Lord will forgive any one who will laugh at the professor.

It's a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

You just have to forgive them for being men.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.