Forgive Quotes
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Love thy neighbor as thyself: Do not do to others what thou wouldst not wish be done to thyself: Forgive injuries. Forgive thy enemy, be reconciled to him, give him assistance, invoke God in his behalf.
Confucius -
Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde
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It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
Alan Paton -
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde -
Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.
Oscar Wilde -
We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it's absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.
T. D. Jakes -
A true friend of mankind whose heart has but once quivered in compassion over the sufferings of the people, will understand and forgive all the impassable alluvial filth in which they are submerged, and will be able to discover the diamonds in the filth.
Fyodor Dostoevsky -
Hate is a very strong and heavy emotion, probably as strong as love. I don't think I can live with hatred. If something bad happens, you feel bad about it; you forgive and move on. There's no hatred.
Karan Singh Grover
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Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Oscar Wilde -
My great mistake, the fault for which I can’t forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.
Oscar Wilde -
People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde -
We ought to hate very rarely, as it is too fatiguing; remain indifferent to a great deal, forgive often and never forget.
Sarah Bernhardt -
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou -
We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
Barbara Mandrell
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I don’t forgive people because I’m weak, I forgive them because I am strong enough to know people make mistakes.
Marilyn Monroe -
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller -
When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
Oprah Winfrey -
Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.
Camryn Manheim -
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy - whether he knows it or not.
Orlando Aloysius Battista -
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor
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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.'
Maya Angelou -
You saw his weakness, and he will never forgive you.
Friedrich Schiller -
Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
Wallis Simpson -
To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
Dag Hammarskjold