Top 50 Forgiveness Quotes


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

Mahatma Gandhi

Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment. It is a choice to show mercy, not to hold the offence up against the offender. Forgiveness is an expression of love.

Gary Chapman

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart. Forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

Hannah More

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Gerald Jampolsky

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

Robert Muller

Forgiving what we cannot forgive creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

Lewis Smedes


Hate. It has caused a lot of problems in this world, but it has not solved one yet.

Maya Angelou

Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.

Desmond Tutu

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

Mark Twain


Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde


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.

Martin Luther King

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

Arthur Balfour

It can be hard to forgive and let go but it’s important to remember that harboring the resentment and holding a grudge can hurt you even more. The word ‘forgive’ really means to give something up for yourself not for them.

Jack Canfield

When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive.

Nelson Mandela

Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave.

Ivern Ball

When we don’t forgive, we’re not hurting the other person. We’re not hurting the company that did us wrong. We’re not hurting God. We’re only hurting ourselves.

Joel Osteen

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King

Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

Martin Luther King

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope

Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

Augustine of Hippo


Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.

Indira Gandhi

We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

Francis Bacon

I forgive myself and set myself free.

Louise Hay

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.

Lex Luger

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

There is nobility in compassion, a beauty in empathy, a grace in forgiveness.

John Connolly

Everyone says forgiveness is a lovely idea, until they have something to forgive.

C.S. Lewis


Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.

Bruce Lee


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

Paul Boose

God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

Henry Ward Beecher


Let us forgive each other – only then will we live in peace.

Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

Frederick W. Robertson

If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.

Mother Theresa


Blame keeps wounds open. Only forgiveness heals.

Thomas S. Manson

And you know, when you’ve experienced grace and you feel like you’ve been forgiven, you’re a lot more forgiving of other people. You’re a lot more gracious to others.

Rick Warren


There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

Bryant H. McGill

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

If you cannot forgive and forget, pick one.

Robert Brault

One of the most staggering truths of the Scriptures is to understand that we do not earn our way to heaven. …works have a place–but as a demonstration of having received God’s forgiveness, not as a badge of merit of having earned it.

Ravi Zacharias


Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.

John F. Kennedy


When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.

Bernard Meltzer

True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.

David Ridge

Forgiveness liberates the soul. It removes fear. That is why it is such a powerful weapon.

Nelson Mandela

The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves. We are prone to sacrifice others when we are ready to sacrifice ourselves.

Eric Hoffer

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

Marlene Dietrich


Forgiveness is a choice, but it is not an option.

Joel Osteen

The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.

Honore de Balzac

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

George Macdonald

In contrast to revenge, which is the natural, automatic reaction to transgression and which, because of the irreversibility of the action process can be expected and even calculated, the act of forgiving can never be predicted; it is the only reaction that acts in an unexpected way and thus retains, though being a reaction, something of the original character of action.

Hannah Arendt

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