Top 199 Forgive Quotes

You always end up saying and doing such horrible things to your family, ’cause you know they’re never going anywhere, and at some point, they’re going to forgive you.

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

If it’s a heartbreak-related stress, I like to listen to Lauryn Hill’s ‘Forgive Them Father’ the most, especially the harmonies.

People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

Instead of hating, I have chosen to forgive and spend all of my positive energy on changing the world.

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

Certainly people make mistakes in their life. I’m no different, I’ve made mistakes. When people mess up, we forgive them. When I mess up, I ask for forgiveness.

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.

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

Force may subdue, but love gains, and he that forgives first wins the laurel.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

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. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.

It’s a lie, but Heaven will forgive you for it.

I never forgive, but I always forget.

With ‘Only God Forgives,’ what’s great about that movie is it just freaked so many people out.

I’m a Christian, and I forgive people. That’s the mature thing to do.

A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.

I learned to forgive myself, and that enabled me to forgive my mother as a person.

I didn’t know if I would ever reconcile with my family, and I needed to believe that I could forgive, regardless.

My mother is the most incredible woman on this entire Earth, and she’s so giving and loving and sweet and she always raised me how to forgive and forget and move on. She’s the catalyst behind it all, my mom is. And I’m 100% a momma’s boy!

If the reader is rooting for the protagonist, they’ll forgive you just about everything else.

Teens have a sensational narcissism and genuinely believe that their experiences are unique and can’t be explained to adults. But we forgive them for their mistakes and naivete.

Everyone makes mistakes, and we need to learn to forgive ourselves.

I learnt not to trust people easily and also learnt that Indians are not really used to reality TV. They will forgive people playing games in monopoly or chess but not on reality show. Come on, lets grow up.

You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.

Can you really forgive if you can’t forget?

‘Tis easier for the generous to forgive, than for offence to ask it.

If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.

I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they’re sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.

People have the wrong idea that God will forgive Reagan. They say he didn’t know what he was doing. It’s true he didn’t know a lot of what was going on, but he was directly responsible.

My mother’s face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.

Sometimes you stumble when you push yourself harder and you’re trying to run faster or whatever. We forgive ourselves, pick ourselves up, and keep running. We don’t cry and stop running because we skinned our knee.

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

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

The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise.

Even if you’re right you have to forgive. It’s a principle that works, whether you believe in God or not.

I always forgive, but I never forget.

We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.

Only the brave know how to forgive… a coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

If consulted by friends about marital dramas, I always encourage the singles to marry, the married to stick together, the neglectful and wayward to renew their loving commitment and the wronged to forgive.

Some people just can’t forgive. And that’s just the way life is. You know, I can’t forgive some things, either.

I will always forgive a technical error, but I will never forgive the wrong attitude.

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.

Through my experiences, I was living with anger and hatred, which was a really bad thing for me. Then I learned how to forgive, and it freed me from hatred and helped me a lot.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

And God knows I needed to be forgiven. So I had to forgive everybody. And then God – as I read in the word, you’re supposed to pray for your enemies. Try that one on.

I’ve looked on many women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. God knows I will do this and forgives me.

It’s not so easy to forgive.

I learned a long time ago that some people would rather die than forgive. It’s a strange truth, but forgiveness is a painful and difficult process. It’s not something that happens overnight. It’s an evolution of the heart.

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t excuse their actions; it frees us from our own chronic stress and suffering, so it’s in our own self-interest.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Nobody is allowed to make money by defaming me. I may forgive, but I’ll never forget.

Some people you can forgive and forget. Some people you cannot forgive or forget. There are other people you can forgive and not forget. So there’s people you can forgive and forget. Forgive and not forget. It depends on what they’ve done.

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

It’s the most amazing thing to be able to forgive.

Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It’s a little easier if you’ve got a god to forgive you.

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

One forgives to the degree that one loves.

If you haven’t forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others.

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.

If I screw up, I’m gonna say, ‘You know what? I really screwed up.’ That’s all you can do. Some people gonna forgive you, some people not gonna forgive you. That’s just the way it works.

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel ‘put down’ and make you look holier-than-thou.

It’s not anti-Catholic to question, nor is it anti-Catholic to be honest about the previous shortcomings of the church, because that is the only way we can ensure its strength and dignity moving forward. It is, however, very Catholic to forgive each other and to never stop loving each other.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.