To err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Franklin P. Adams
The hatred you're carrying is a live coal in your heart - far more damaging to yourself than to them.
Lawana Blackwell
Pray you now, forget and forgive.
William Shakespeare
The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is almost a selfish act because of its immense benefits to the one who forgives.
Lawana Blackwell
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings
No one forgives with more grace and love than a child.
Real Live Preacher
Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it. Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your move.
Real Live Preacher
Forgiveness does not always lead to a healed relationship. Some people are not capable of love, and it might be wise to let them go along with your anger. Wish them well, and let them go their way.
Real Live Preacher
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one.
Henry Ward Beecher
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Real Live Preacher
God tolerates even our stammering, and pardons our ignorance whenever something inadvertently escapes us - as, indeed, without this mercy there would be no freedom to pray.
John Calvin
My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business.
Margaret Mitchell
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
Stuart's Law of Retroaction
People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than for being right.
Joanne Kathleen Rowling
It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
Jessamyn West
Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave.
Ivern Ball
You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes
We bury love; Forgetfulness grows over it like grass: That is a thing to weep for, not the dead.
Alexander Smith
Hollywood is more forgiving than the church.
Richard Rossi
If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?
Dolores Huerta
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
Bonnie Jewell
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Oprah Winfrey
They punish you for all your virtues. They forgive you entirely--your mistakes.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.
Dr. Thomas Fuller
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
Robert Frost
One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything before you go to bed.
Ann Landers
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain; but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
Dale Carnegie
...people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.
J. K. Rowling
If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see.
Spanish Proverb
Forgiveness is one of the many horrible side effects of loving someone.
Randy K. Milholland
Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. Love me and I may be forced to love you.
William Arthur Ward
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.
Jean Paul Richter
Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son m'etier (God will forgive me. It's his profession).
Heinrich Heine
When he followed the instincts which God had transmitted to him from his ancestry of beasts of prey, he called it sin and asked God to forgive him.
Bertrand Russell
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
Berton Averre
Dieu me pardonnera. C'est son metier. (God will forgive me. It's his job.)
Heinrich Heine
If anyone felt offended in his religious feelings, I freely ask him in a Christian manner for forgiveness.
Cesare Cavalleri
The stupid neither forgive or forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Thomas S. Szasz
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.''.
John Tillotson
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
Maria Edgeworth
To err is human, to forgive divine.
Alexander Pope
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
Walter Winchell
The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
Marquis De Sade
God may forgive your sins, but your nervous system won't.
Alfred Korzybski
Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov
It is always the case that when the Christian looks back, he is looking at the forgiveness of sins.
Karl Barth
She loves Danny but she can't forgive him.
Debra Stephenson
Forgive Us Our Press Passes.
Daniel Schorr
It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
Grace Murray Hopper
All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.
Walt Whitman
Don't let the sun go down upon your anger; forgive each other, help each other, and begin again tomorrow.
Louisa May Alcott
So if they stay in the house for five years, the whole amount is forgiven.
City Clerk Scott Berka
We'll forgive a 1-900 charge on a one-time basis, on the condition that the customer places a 1-900 block on their line.
Shawn Hall
Weh I was a kid I prayed every night for a bike until I figured out that that's not the way that God works, so I stole a bike and then asked him for forgiveness.
Emo Phillips
A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.
Robert Quillen
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
Henry Wheeler Shaw
What power has love but forgiveness?
William Carlos Williams
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
Betty Smith (writer)
She certainly is sorrowful that she let all these people down. She realizes the error of what she did, and she really knows that it will be difficult for them to forgive her.
Francis O'boy
You were a part of our family. I forgive you, please look at me. I know this was an accident.
Lisa Fleming
Listen to my heart, can you hear it sing: Come back to me and forgive everything.
Moulin Rouge
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
Paul Tillich
Over time, they will be willing to forgive. They won't forget.
Peter Land
Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.
Nikos Kazantzakis
This guy's got charisma, the public will forgive him for anything if he can get Blair out of office.
Julie Smith
The public is very forgiving. And very intrigued. It's not like, 'Oh no Colin, not you!
Kate White
Every night, I pray to her and talk to her. There's not a night that goes by that I don't. I ask her to forgive me.
Lisa Glaza
But that doesn't forgive what he did.
Brian Rust
In the wintertime, regardless of what happened in the summer, all is forgiven.
Nicki Grossman
There is also the issue of debt forgiveness for some construction companies by banks.
Richard Jerram
Forgivness is The ultimate sacrifice.Eloquence belongs, To the conqueror.
Serj Tankian
Know from our heart that it's a forgiving heart. Forgiveness is everything. It's everything.
Tonya David
[Critics] could not forgive Jane Fonda for doing fluff, like she had to do something with mucho gravitas, which is B.S.,
Robert Luketic
There are no reasons for justifying or forgiving the actions of the defendant.
Gusti Lanang Dauh
It does not repent of anything and it does not ask the victims of terrorism for forgiveness.
Mariano Rajoy
When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.
Alan Paton
It's also foolproof. You can't make mistakes with the Aga. It's very forgiving and it's fabulous for entertaining because you have so many compartments.
Jim Gilbert
I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.
If I was mistaken in some way, please forgive me, but stop with this constant philosophy of forgiving and forgetting.
Mariana Fulger
Women will forgive anything. Otherwise, the race would have died out long ago.
Robert A. Heinlein
I have never thought that the circumstance of God's having forgiven me was any reason why I should forgive myself.
Charles Simeon
When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer
It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
Olin Miller
I'm a Christian, so I forgive him.
Rachel Williams
To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Quentin Crisp
Let us forgive each other - only then will we live in peace.
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Robert Fripp
If we could only share our hopes, our dreams, our disappointments, our fears, our achievements, and our discoveries.... the world would be a little kinder and a lot more forgiving.
Robert Anthony
They also are more forgiving and have a bigger sweet spot than the traditional irons.
Chris Plummer
This movie is about forgiveness.
Andrew Adamson
I really cannot forgive them (the Japanese army).
Joyce Bradbury
Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter Scott
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.
Mark Twain
Anger and blaming others takes a lot of energy away from healing. One of the most powerful emotions that has to be expressed is forgiveness.
Candace Pert
It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.
Lewis B. Smedes
I will never forgive them, not after the accusations they've made.
Michael Schiavo
I'm not angry anymore. Whoever did it -- it's already a forgiven deal. I just want to know who did it, so they don't do it so someone else's animals.
Kandace Diekman
It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.
Lana Turner
U.S. markets were firmer, gold was a bit better, commodities are OK, so all is forgiven.
Leigh Gardner
One thing you will probably remember well is anytime you forgive and forget.
Franklin P. Jones
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
William Blake
Please forgive me for not saying I'll try to do better.
Annette Bening
God Himself is the Forgiver.
Guru Gobind Singh
Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.
Marlene Dietrich
I don't know that I could ever forgive. I also pray that one day I'll be able to. But I have too much anger at what's happened.
Robert Schindler
Can you really forgive if you can't forget?
Sarah Jessica Parker
I feel terrible about it. I'm having a hard time forgiving myself because he was so chewed up.
Scott Sword
He who has not forgiven an enemy has not yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
Heinrich Heine
It's not quite as forgiving (as a motorcycle) in loose gravel or when cornering.
Steve Armstrong
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
No one has ever done anything too bad to be forgiven.
R. Z. Sheppard
To punish the oppressors of humanity is clemency; to forgive them is cruelty.
Maximilien Robespierre
I cannot forgive my friends for dying; I do not find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.
Logan Pearsall Smith
Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer
Last time the customers were very forgiving. They came back until we got it.
Kathy Harman
If we don't have forgiveness, then we don't have anything.
Robert Shackelford
The field turf is much less abrasive and much more forgiving.
Pat Fitzgerald
And I'm just a firm believer, if God can forgive me all the stuff I've done, then why can't I forgive somebody else?
James Richardson
It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.
Madame Dorothee Deluzy
Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.
Minna Thomas Antrim
You could be forgiven for walking down Broadway and thinking you're in the West End.
Michael Riedel
That the only person who can save you is yourself. The only person you can really forgive is you.
Matthew Modine
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy
I feel no mercy for him. He obviously didn't show my daughter any mercy, and I don't know if I could ever forgive him for what he's done to myself, to Danielle ... and to our family.
Brenda Van Dam
We'd forgive most things if we knew the facts.
Graham Greene
The prevailing sentiment is shame. I beg PSG fans to forgive us for our performance.
Pierre Blayau
It's hard to forgive. We have to forgive -- we're commanded in the Bible to forgive. It's something I have to work on, and the only thing we can pray for is this sentencing. We pray that it does work.
Verlin Posey
To understand is to forgive, even oneself.
Alexander Chase
One forgives to the degree that one loves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It's about forgiveness and growing up and finding yourself and finding your place in the world and in the community and family and all that.
Larry Yando
I'm sorry for hurting my family, I'm sorry for hurting my friends. Please forgive me.
David Cruz
First you must forgive those who you have any grudges against, ... That way the Father will forgive you and answer your prayers.
Robert Pitts
I never forgive, but I always forget.
Arthur James Balfour
It doesn't matter how long you've had the book. The fine will be forgiven.
Mary Hodgkins
We are here to ask for your forgiveness.
Reuven Rivlin
He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself.
George Herbert
Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
Jean De La Bruyere
I still forgive him, because by doing what he did, he made it famous.
Alberto Korda
I didn't know about this. But I want to say, 'I'm sorry.' All I can say is I will forever be sorry. I ask that your family forgive my family.
Tommy Smith
I shall be an autocrat, that's my trade; and the good Lord will forgive me, that's his.
Catherine The Great
I thank God for his mercy, and I believe he has forgiven her and she is with him. I thank our family and friends for all their support.
Terri Gastellum
To the kidnappers, I would say, 'I know Tom could forgive you for the evil you've done.' I hope I would be able, too.
Chuck Fager
'Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive.
John Sheffield
No child of God sins to that degree as to make himself incapable of forgiveness.
John Bunyan
I do believe we should forgive those people who perpetrated 9/11 and ask that they forgive us.
Colman Mccarthy
Hollywood has the biggest heart in the world, and if there is any place where someone would be forgiven, it's in this town.
Tom Sherak
They (the German companies) want to buy moral forgiveness but you don't buy moral forgiveness at bargain-basement prices.
Edward Fagan
God forgive you, but I never can.
Elizabeth I
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