Top 199 Forgive Quotes

The quality of the work when I was 16… I’ve had my issues with it, but I’ve learned to forgive myself because I was 16 years old.
Bo Burnham
Those who easily forgive invite offenses.
Pierre Corneille
I like second chances. I’ve given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It’s not easy to forgive. I definitely don’t forget, but I do forgive.
Odette Annable
I can forgive the body breaking down. It’s a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.
Hale Irwin
In times of tumult, voters are likely to forgive a president, if not reward him, for compromises made in service of solutions.
Ron Fournier
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
One forgives the critic – perhaps – but never the good-natured friend.
James Payn
One thing about racing, a lot of times you’ll get upset with someone, yet we live in confinement here. It’s almost like we live in a prison and you have to try and get along. Forgive and forget.
Bob Baffert
There’s a small group of music critics in the States who will forgive you anything – jazz, a long prison term, or what have you – anything but scoring a Hollywood musical.
Andre Previn
If people become kinder to each other and begin to forgive some bitterness, if they begin to love their neighbor as the Most High loves us, then I am for it.
Oleksandr Usyk
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Emo Philips
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman
One can’t relive one’s life. Forgiveness is not what’s difficult; one’s always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that’s obvious.
Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Sometimes, life just gets in the way, and you have to forgive yourself for putting on a few pounds.
Trisha Yearwood
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
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Lewis B. Smedes
Trump enabled, allowed, peddled to, and promoted the worst in America – racism, division, discrimination, misogyny – during his campaign. I will never forget or forgive him for that.
Ana Navarro
If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?
Adam McKay
I never forget. I never forgive. I can wait. I find it very easy to harbor a grudge. I have scores to settle.
Tom Wolfe
It’s a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn’t think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
Richard Dawkins
Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person’s capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.
Viola Davis
I think it’s a lot harder to forgive yourself for your own mistakes.
Kerry Bishe
It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
Maya Angelou
If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.
Hyman Rickover
Why are women always the ones who have to forgive? If you cheated on a man, he would be like, ‘You’re disgusting, and I want nothing to do with you.’ But women, we’re supposed to be like, ‘He messed up. He made a mistake.’
Adrienne Bailon
There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
I don't have a twin, but I do have a brother and sister

I don’t have a twin, but I do have a brother and sisters, and I do know that there is a special bond there that is – I’m going to say – closer. It’s different. It’s closer than having a best friend. It’s easier to forgive them. I think it’s also easier to get mad at them. You feel a little piece of yourself in them.
Justin Hartley
Forgive me, but what is the purpose of drama but catharsis?
Edward Zwick
Speak the truth. People will forgive an honest mistake; they won’t forgive you if you lie.
Mark Goulston
I grabbed my mom and I went to the couch and I said, ‘Mom I want to ask Jesus to come into my heart.’ And I got on my knee and I asked Jesus to come into my heart, forgive me of my sins, and make me a child of God.
Tim Tebow
You’ve got to give your past attention, but you’ve got to forgive yourself, acknowledge what you did wrong, and be a man, taking responsibility. You can’t not fly anymore because of the things you’ve been through. You’ve got to believe in a brighter future, that better version of yourself.
Jon Jones
You’re supposed to remember, and still forgive.
Delta Burke
I’ve had friends who say that they would never forgive cheating, but then they fall in love, the guy cheats, and they forgive him. I don’t know what I would do.
Josephine Langford
Forgive me, but Wolfmother, you suck!
Mike Patton
Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
In battle, you forgive a man anything except an unwillingness to take risks. Sometimes you have to put it on the line.
Tom Clancy
We easily forgive our friends those faults that do no affect us ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The Earth forgives the previous year every year.
Robert Hass
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Antrim
If it is committed in the name of God or country, there is no crime so heinous that the public will not forgive it.
Tom Robbins
Thank you, God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough.
Garrison Keillor
I forgive everyone in my life.
David Luiz
If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or not squatter’s rights of the heart.
James Hilton
I think the saddest thing is how people take on guilt and blame that isn’t theirs or doesn’t belong to them, and how hard it is to forgive yourself.
Wunmi Mosaku
I’m a worrier and a perfectionist, and live television is like the antithesis of that, so it’s been an interesting sort of push-pull of what I forgive myself for and what I don’t.
Malika Andrews
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won’t feel so thankful then.
Garrison Keillor
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell
If you miss something in the theater, you are working through it; you’ll get it tomorrow. It’s easy to forgive yourself in the theater. On television, you do one shot. All you’ve done rehearsal-wise is be blocked. There is all this pressure to get it right then.
Donna Lynne Champlin
The public seldom forgive twice.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
I’ve always very earnestly tried to do my best, so I just have to trust that and forgive myself for being fallible.
Claire Danes
The people who did you wrong or who didn’t quite know how to show up, you forgive them. And forgiving them allows you to forgive yourself too.
Jane Fonda
I tried to manipulate and control people, and I harbored resentment. I wanted to be forgiven, but I wouldn’t forgive others.
Lauryn Hill
A good wife always forgives her husband when she’s wrong.
Milton Berle
The minute the church and pastors start saying what do people want and then giving it to them, we betray our calling. We’re called to have people follow Jesus. We’re called to have people learn how to forgive their enemies.
Eugene H. Peterson
May God forgive me, but the letters of the alphabet frighten me terribly. They are sly, shameless demons – and dangerous! You open the inkwell, release them; they run off – and how will you ever get control of them again!
Nikos Kazantzakis
It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to be willing to be forgiven by God and to be reluctant to be forgiven by men.
Charles Williams
There are so many factors when you think of your own films. You think of the people you worked on it with, and somehow forget the movie. You can’t forgive the movie for a long time. It takes a few years to look at it with any objectivity and forgive its flaws.
George A. Romero
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to fo

To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Maximilien Robespierre
I believe in second chances and I have strong faith in God that he forgives our sins.
Donovan McNabb
If you’re going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy; God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won’t.
Hyman Rickover
Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
Phillips Brooks
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman
I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.
Nikki Sixx
The Holy Spirit, thank God, often enables people to forgive even though they are not sure how they did it.
Lewis B. Smedes
It’s easier to forgive those who hurt you than those who hurt the people you love.
Regina Brett
There are people who can never forgive a beggar for their not having given him anything.
Karl Kraus
The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live – live a complete life – live all our life.
Emile Zola
I just hope everybody forgives me for whatever I did wrong. And hope they remember some of what I did right.
Ray Price
Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Robert Frost