Forgiveness Quotes - Best Inspirational Quotes About Forgiveness

Forgiveness is something that comes much easier to some people than others, and it is certainly not something that many people take lightly. Unless we happen to lead an especially fortunate life, the chances are that at some point in our lives we will need to forgive somebody close to us, for something they’ve done, whether it be accidental of deliberately. Of course, how and why we forgive people can vary dramatically. If somebody accidentally eats your food from the fridge for example, forgiving them would be much easier than if they had broken into your home and stolen your personal belongings. Never the less, it is detrimental to hold grudges, so if you’re finding it difficult to forgive somebody close to you for their past misgivings, take a look at these inspiring forgiveness quotes and see if you change your tune.

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Louis B. Smedes

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Resentment and holding grudges can eat us alive and can weigh heavily upon our souls. If you’re willing to forgive and forget, only then can you truly go free spiritually.

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

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We will all make mistakes and we will all need to be forgiven for our mistakes if we wish to enjoy a happy relationship with those that we love and care about. On the flipside, we must also do the same when it comes to them.

I have learned that sometimes “sorry” is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.

– Claire London

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Forgiving is one thing, but sometimes it takes actions instead of words to prove that a person has truly changed and is sorry for their actions.

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

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This funny forgiveness quotes talks about the fact that holding grudges in relationships is never beneficial. If you’re truly able to forgive your partner, no matter what it is they’ve done, you must also be willing to forget.

“We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.” – Martha Kilpatrick

This quote talks about how it’s in our nature to make mistakes and hurt those we care about. If we wish to truly be happy and content, we must be willing for forgive, and hope that others can return the same favour when we too make mistakes.

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“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
― Oscar Wilde

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“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”
― Mahatma Gandhi

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“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.”
― J.K. Rowling

“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.” – Katherine Ponder
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
― Steve Maraboli

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“A happy marriage is the union of two good forgivers.” – Robert Quillen

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“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” – William Arthur Ward

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

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.” – William Blake

“Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.”
– Marianne Williamson

“These are the few ways we can practice humility:

To speak as little as possible of one’s self.

To mind one’s own business.

Not to want to manage other people’s affairs.

To avoid curiosity.

To accept contradictions and correction cheerfully.

To pass over the mistakes of others.

To accept insults and injuries.

To accept being slighted, forgotten and disliked.

To be kind and gentle even under provocation.

Never to stand on one’s dignity.

To choose always the hardest.”
― Mother Teresa

“Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.”
― Robert Jordan

“One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.”
― Rita Mae Brown

“True forgiveness is when you can say, “Thank you for that experience.”
― Oprah Winfrey

“We are all mistaken sometimes; sometimes we do wrong things, things that have bad consequences. But it does not mean we are evil, or that we cannot be trusted ever afterward.”
― Alison Croggon

“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
― John F. Kennedy

“Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.”
― C.R. Strahan

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
— Cherie Carter-Scott

Forgo your anger for a moment and save yourself a hundred days of trouble.
— Chinese proverb

“The man who opts for revenge should dig two graves.”
— Chinese proverb

The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.
— Elderidge Cleaver

“Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.” – Alice Duer Miller

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

“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
― Nelson Mandela

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
― Steve Marabol

“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.”
― Confucius

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

“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.” – Louis B. Smedes

“We are all on a life long journey and the core of its meaning, the terrible demand of its centrality is forgiving and being forgiven.” – Martha Kilpatrick

“Forgiveness is the name of love practiced among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. We need to forgive and be forgiven every day, every hour increasingly. That is the great work of love among the fellowship of the weak that is the human family.”
― Henri J.M. Nouwen

“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
― Steve Maraboli

“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
― Thomas Stephen Szasz

“Anger is like flowing water; there’s nothing wrong with it as long as you let it flow. Hate is like stagnant water; anger that you denied yourself the freedom to feel, the freedom to flow; water that you gathered in one place and left to forget. Stagnant water becomes dirty, stinky, disease-ridden, poisonous, deadly; that is your hate. On flowing water travels little paper boats; paper boats of forgiveness. Allow yourself to feel anger, allow your waters to flow, along with all the paper boats of forgiveness. Be human.”
― C. JoyBell C.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
— Princess Diana

“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn’t leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I’d still be in prison.”
― Nelson Mandela

“Forgiveness does not overlook the deed. It rises above it.”
— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Perpetrators who receive the gift of forgiveness are given a chance to change
— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
“What I cannot love, I overlook.”
― Anaïs Nin

“Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.”
― Rick Warren

“Forgiveness in no way requires that you trust the one you forgive.”
― Wm. Paul Young

“Watch our for each other. Love and forgive everybody. It’s a good life, enjoy it!”
— Jim Henson

“When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.”
— Alan Paton

Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively. — David McArthur & Bruce McArthur
“We cannot change the past, but we can change our attitude toward it. Uproot guilt and plant forgiveness. Tear out arrogance and seed humility. Exchange love for hate — thereby, making the present comfortable and the future promising.”
— Maya Angelou

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

“I’ll understand if you don’t want me. But I will be heartbroken. You are all I ever dreamed of and hoped for. You are much, much more. Please know that I didn’t think I was mean-minded. But I realize I am. I don’t want you to put your arms around me and say it’s all right, that you forgive me. I want you to be sure that you do, and my love for you will last as long as I live. I can see no lightness, no humour, no joke to make. I just hope that we will be able to go back to when we had laughter, and the world was coloured, not black and white and grey. I am so sorry for hurting you. I could inflict all kinds of pain on myself, but it would not take back any I gave to you. – David Power”
― Maeve Binchy, Echoes

“Always forgive, but never forget, else you will be a prisoner of your own hatred, and doomed to repeat your mistakes forever.”
― Wil Zeus

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

Forgiveness is the final form of love. –Reinhold Niebuhr

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited. Louis B. Smedes
The only way children can learn the habit of forgiveness is by seeing us, their parents, forgive others and forgive ourselves.
— Naomi Drew

Peace is not possible without forgiveness.
— Naomi Drew

“I have learned, that the person I have to ask for forgiveness from the most is: myself. You must love yourself. You have to forgive yourself, everyday, whenever you remember a shortcoming, a flaw, you have to tell yourself “That’s just fine”. You have to forgive yourself so much, until you don’t even see those things anymore. Because that’s what love is like.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.”
― Gerald G. Jampolsk
“An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind.”
— Mohandas K. Gandhi

Forgiving it’s easy, it’s trusting again which is hard.
– Unknown
Forgiveness is choosing to love. It is the first skill of self-giving love.
— Mohandas K. Gandhi

You know you have forgiven someone when he or she has harmless passage through your mind.
— Rev. Karyl Huntley

I refuse to let what happened to me make me bitter.
— Nicole Kidman

Forgiving it’s easy, it’s trusting again which is hard.
– Unknown
orgiveness is a gift you give to yourself. It is not something you do FOR someone else.
— Larry James

Forgiveness is one of the most important first steps to ending conflicts in our families, our communities and between nations.
— Robert Alan Silverstein

“Forgiveness is an act of the imagination. It dares you to imagine a better future, one that is based on the blessed possibility that your hurt will not be the final word on the matter. It challenges you to give up your destructive thoughts about the situation and to believe in the possibility of a better future. It builds confidence that you can survive the pain and grow from it. ”
— Larry James
“Forgiveness is primarily for our own sake, so that we no longer carry the burden of resentment. But to forgive does not mean we will allow injustice again.”
–Jack Kornfield

So there you have it, inspiring forgiveness quotes designed to help you see just how important it is to forgive and be forgiven for past mistakes, and to hopefully learn from them, take the joyous feeling of being forgiven, and never make the same mistakes again in the future. Not everybody forgives, and not everybody forgets, but if you can find it in your heart to forgive somebody for their wrongdoings, you yourself will benefit from a heightened sense of enlightenment.

If you need some more inspiration, you might want to check out our letting go of resentment quotes, moving on quotes and sayings page.