Famous Forgiveness Quotes

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

Mark Twain, Author

"How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names"

John F. Kennedy, President

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

Marianne Williamson, Author

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

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

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

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err"

Euripides, Poet

"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 made clean again"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

"Forgotten is forgiven"

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Author

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

Catherine the Great, Royalty

"There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness"

Josh Billings, Comedian

"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, Saint

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

Bryant H. McGill, Author

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

Garrison Keillor, Writer

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

George MacDonald, Novelist

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

William Arthur Ward, Writer

"God will forgive me. It's his job"

Heinrich Heine, Poet

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

Jean Paul, Author

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

Alice Duer Miller, Poet

"Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself"

Ausonius, Poet

"Forgiveness is the economy of the heart... forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits"

Hannah More, Writer

"Forgiveness means letting go of the past"

Gerald Jampolsky, Psychologist

"A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable"

Robert Fripp, Musician

"Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom"

Hannah Arendt, Historian

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

Grace Hopper, Scientist

"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, Poet

"Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself"

Suzanne Somers, Actress

"Forgiveness is the final form of love"

Reinhold Niebuhr, Theologian