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Thucydides | Forgiveness

Tis easier for the generous to forgi

Thomson | Forgiveness

The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

Hazlitt, William | Forgiveness

Sometimes, where a complex problem can be illuminated by many tools, one can be forgiven for applying the one he knows best.

Machol, Robert | Forgiveness

Society can overlook murder, adultery or swindling; it can never forgive the preaching of a new gospel.

Harrison, Frederic | Forgiveness

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

Landers, Ann | Forgiveness

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely gi

Mencken, H.L. | Forgiveness

God will forgive me. It's his profession.

Heine, Heinrich | Forgiveness

God forgives us. ... Who am I not to forgive?

Paton, Alan | Forgiveness

Forgiveness is better than revenge, for forgiveness is the sign of a gentle nature, but revenge is the sign of a savage nature.

Epictetus | Forgiveness

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

Frost, Robert | Forgiveness

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.

Nicole Kidman | Forgiveness

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

Lewis B. Smedes | Forgiveness

Without forgiveness, there's no future.

Desmond Tutu | Forgiveness

Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

Roberto Assagioli | Forgiveness

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Bernard Meltzer | Forgiveness

When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.

Honore de Balzac | Forgiveness

When there's that forgiveness present and compassion, it just helps you live so much easier.

Craig T. Nelson | Forgiveness

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.

Emo Philips | Forgiveness

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 | Forgiveness

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Frederick William Robertson | Forgiveness

We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not it takes a very strong person to forgive.

T. D. Jakes | Forgiveness

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

T. D. Jakes | Forgiveness

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

Alexander Chase | Forgiveness

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Lewis B. Smedes | Forgiveness

To err is human to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope | Forgiveness

To be social is to be forgiving.

Robert Frost | Forgiveness

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Josh Billings | Forgiveness

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Bryant H. McGill | Forgiveness

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

Mahatma Gandhi | Forgiveness

The schools would fail through their silence, the Church through its forgiveness, and the home through the denial and silence of the parents. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it.

Simon Wiesenthal | Forgiveness

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

Oscar Wilde | Forgiveness

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson | Forgiveness

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

Elbert Hubbard | Forgiveness

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

Honore de Balzac | Forgiveness

The glory of Christianity is to conquer by forgiveness.

William Blake | Forgiveness

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.

Marianne Williamson | Forgiveness

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

Rick Perry | Forgiveness

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

Bryant H. McGill | Forgiveness

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

Garrison Keillor | Forgiveness

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

Kevyn Aucoin | Forgiveness

Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

Jane Austen | Forgiveness

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

Elbert Hubbard | Forgiveness

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 | Forgiveness

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Forgiveness

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Marlene Dietrich | Forgiveness

On a level of simple personal survival, understanding and forgiveness are crucial... whether in an intimate personal relationship or on a global level.

Edward Albert | Forgiveness

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Scott Adams | Forgiveness

Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Forgiveness

My desire is to stand up and brush myself off when I make mistakes and ask for forgiveness.

Janine Turner | Forgiveness

My desire is to be a forgiving, non-judgmental person.

Janine Turner | Forgiveness

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.

W. H. Auden | Forgiveness

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

Bruce Lee | Forgiveness

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

Billy Graham | Forgiveness

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Peter Ustinov | Forgiveness

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.

Norman Cousins | Forgiveness

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 | Forgiveness

It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.

Olin Miller | Forgiveness

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

Lewis B. Smedes | Forgiveness

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

Jessamyn West | Forgiveness

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.

Grace Hopper | Forgiveness

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

William Blake | Forgiveness

It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.

Karl Barth | Forgiveness

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Gerald Jampolsky | Forgiveness

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

Madeleine L'Engle | Forgiveness

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

Friedrich Nietzsche | Forgiveness

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.

Nelson Mandela | Forgiveness

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 | Forgiveness

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

Josh McDowell | Forgiveness

I think we learn the most from imperfect relationships - things like forgiveness and compassion.

Andrea Thompson | Forgiveness

I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It's a gift you give yourself.

T. D. Jakes | Forgiveness

I think it's important to remember that Christianity was based in love and tolerance and forgiveness and acceptance.

Kristin Chenoweth | Forgiveness

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

Catherine the Great | Forgiveness

I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

Carlos Santana | Forgiveness

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

Abdul Qadeer Khan | Forgiveness

I find forgiveness to be really healthy.

Ben Affleck | Forgiveness

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 | Forgiveness

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.

Mark Wahlberg | Forgiveness

I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

Marianne Williamson | Forgiveness

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 | Forgiveness

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.

Adlai E. Stevenson | Forgiveness

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

Jean Paul | Forgiveness

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Publilius Syrus | Forgiveness

How does one know if she has forgiven? You tend to feel sorrow over the circumstance instead of rage, you tend to feel sorry for the person rather than angry with him. You tend to have nothing left to say about it all.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes | Forgiveness

Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life.

Joan Lunden | Forgiveness

Here is the amazing thing about Easter the Resurrection Sunday for Christians is this, that Christ in the dying moments on the cross gives us the greatest illustration of forgiveness possible.

T. D. Jakes | Forgiveness

He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven.

Thomas Fuller | Forgiveness

God's forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

Jonathan Sacks | Forgiveness

God will forgive me. It's his job.

Heinrich Heine | Forgiveness

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

Henry Ward Beecher | Forgiveness

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.

Alice Duer Miller | Forgiveness

Forgotten is forgiven.

F. Scott Fitzgerald | Forgiveness

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

John Dryden | Forgiveness

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

Desmond Tutu | Forgiveness

Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

Jennifer O'Neill | Forgiveness

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Gerald Jampolsky | Forgiveness

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 | Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.

Hannah Arendt | Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

George MacDonald | Forgiveness

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

Mark Twain | Forgiveness

Forgiveness is the final form of love.

Reinhold Niebuhr | Forgiveness