Finding forgiveness can be hard. So we’ve created a list of quotes about forgiveness to help guide you and give you other people’s perspectives. Don’t bottle up your feelings, choose to get through them and find inspiration with these forgiveness quotes.

Forgiveness Quotes

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde

Pray you now, forget and forgive. – William Shakespeare

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. – Samuel Johnson

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. – Josh Billings

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. – Marianne Williamson

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears. – Glenn Clark

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. – Franklin P. Jones

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. – George Herbert

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. – Paul Boese

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her…but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account. – W. Somerset Maugham

The hatred you’re carrying is a live coal in your heart – far more damaging to yourself than to them. – Lawana Blackwell

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. – The Buddha

Forgiveness … is the finishing of old business that allows us to experience the present, free of contamination from the past. – Joan Borysenko

“I can forgive, but I cannot forget,” is only another way of saying, “I will not forgive.” Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note – torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. – Henry Ward Beecher

Good, to forgive; Best, to forget. – Elizabeth Barrett Browning

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. – Catherine Ponder

Forgive and Forget Quotes

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully. – Zoe Akins

The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. – George Bernard Shaw

Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. – Jean Paul Richter

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. – Alden Nowlan

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

It’s easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. – Grace Hopper

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. – Mark Twain

The act of forgiveness is the act of returning to present time. And that’s why when one has become a forgiving person, and has managed to let go of the past, what they’ve really done is they’ve shifted their relationship with time. – Caroline Myss

Quotes about Forgiveness and Love

The key to forgiveness is to forgive from the heart — not from the mind. – Sheri Rosenthal

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. – Mark Twain

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. – Bryant H. McGill

It is manlike to punish but godlike to forgive. – Peter von Winter

Forgiving is love’s toughest work, and love’s biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love’s power to break nature’s rule. – Lewis B. Smedes

Love them as they are, and forgive them everything. – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Where there is great love there are always miracles. – Willa Cather

When you are offended at any man’s fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger. – Epictetus

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive. – Mother Teresa

As forgiveness can illumine a human life, even so love, can enlarge A human mind. – Sri Chinmoy

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness. – Robert Muller

Quotes about Forgiveness and Moving On

Forgiveness is not an emotion, it is a decision. – Randall Worley

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. – Marlene Deitrich

Forgiveness it the key to action and freedom. – Hannah Arendt

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life. – George MacDonald

Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness. – Tina Dayton

To be able to move on, one has to learn to forgive not only the person (or people) who have done one wrong but also oneself. – Eugenia Tripputi

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