Forgiveness Sayings and Quotes

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom."
Hannah Arendt

"You don't have to accept the invitation to get angry. Instead, practice forgiveness, empathy and encouragement."
Dan Fallon

"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself."
Publilius Syrus

"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were."
Cherie Carter-Scott

"We cannot love unless we have accepted forgiveness, and the deeper our experience of forgiveness is, the greater is our love."
Paul Tillich

"Good to forgive, Best to forget."
Robert Browning

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

"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."
Gerald Jampolsky

"To understand all is to forgive all."
French Proverb

"To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness."
Robert Muller

"Little vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies."
Lord Chesterfield

"Without forgiveness, there’s no future."
Desmond Tutu

"To err is human, to forgive, divine."
Alexander Pope

"Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
Paul Boese

"Life is an adventure in forgiveness."
Norman Cousins

"Forgiveness is the answer to the child's dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is again made clean."
Dag Hammarskjold

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

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness."
Josh Billings

"The motto should not be:
Forgive one another; rather, understand one another."
Emma Goldman

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

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

"Forgiveness is not an occasional act: it is an attitude."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive."
John Sheffield

"You can’t undo anything you’ve already done, but you can face up to it.
You can tell the truth. You can seek forgiveness. And then let God do the rest. "
Author Unknown

"Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives."
Lawana Blackwell

"They who forgive most shall be most forgiven."
Philip Bailey

"We may not know how to forgive, and we may not want to forgive; but the very fact we say we are willing to forgive begins the healing practice."
Louise Hay

"To be wronged is nothing unless you continue to remember it."
Confucius

"The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart, far more damaging to yourself than to them."
Lawana Blackwell

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde

"We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Doing an injury puts you below your enemy;
Revenging one makes you but even with him;
Forgiving it sets you above him."
Benjamin Franklin

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