Values & Character: Forgiveness Quotes

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"I believe in trusting men, not only once but twice - in giving a failure another chance"

James Cash Penney, Businessman

James Cash Penney

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

William Arthur Ward, Writer

William Arthur Ward

"The fool thinks he has won a battle when he bullies with harsh speech, but knowing how to be forbearing alone makes one victorious"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Remembering a wrong is like carrying a burden on the mind"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"To understand everything is to forgive everything"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Forgive and be free. Forget that you have forgiven and be freer"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace"

Buddha, Leader

Buddha

"Value people on their potential, not on their history"

Bo Bennett, Businessman

Bo Bennett

"Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave"

Indira Gandhi, Statesman

Indira Gandhi

"The gods look in pleasure on penitent sinners"

Theodor Adorno, Philosopher

Theodor Adorno

"Injuries may be forgiven, but not forgotten"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge"

Napoleon Hill, Writer

Napoleon Hill

"Be able to cite three good qualities of every relative or acquaintance that you dislike"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter"

Henry B. Adams, Historian

Henry B. Adams

"If you hug to yourself any resentment against anybody else, you destroy the bridge by which God would come to you"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

Peter Marshall

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

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"The wise man... If he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"The pleasure of those who injure you lies in your pain. Therefore, they will suffer if you take away their pleasure by not feeling pain"

Tertullian, Author

Tertullian

"The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation"

Jean de La Bruyère, Philosopher

Jean de La Bruyère

"Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven"

Igor Stravinsky, Composer

Igor Stravinsky

"I didn't have a catharsis for my childhood pain, most of us don't, and until I learned how to forgive those people and let it go, I was unhappy"

Tyler Perry, Actor

Tyler Perry

"It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you"

Tyler Perry, Actor

Tyler Perry

"There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury"

Alexander Smith, Poet

Alexander Smith

"What I need to do, to heal myself, and to be assuring, and allay the fears of others, and to heal them, if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said"

Mel Gibson, Actor

Mel Gibson

"I bear no grudges. I have a mind that retains nothing"

Bette Midler, Actress

Bette Midler

"Bitterness imprisons life; love releases it"

Harry Emerson Fosdick, Clergyman

"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, Author

Jessamyn West

"I was very sorry when I found out that your intentions were good and not what I supposed they were"

Sitting Bull, Statesman

Sitting Bull

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

Jean Paul, Author

Jean Paul

"Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

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

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"Bear with the faults of others, as you would have them bear with yours"

Phillips Brooks, Clergyman

Phillips Brooks

"I'm not angry at anyone"

Peabo Bryson, Musician

Peabo Bryson

"One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy"

E. B. White, Writer

"It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of occasions of sin. And believe me, although we may more often fail and commit small lapses, our gain will be incomparably the greater"

Saint Teresa of Avila, Saint

Saint Teresa of Avila

"Life is too short for long-term grudges"

Elon Musk, Businessman

Elon Musk

"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"

Hillary Clinton, Politician

Hillary Clinton

"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on"

Les Brown, Businessman

"Forgive those who have hurt you"

Les Brown, Businessman

"It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it"

Matthew Prior, Poet

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