forgive Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about forgive.
“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, Jr.
“We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.”
- Samuel Butler
“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
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”
- Les Brown
“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
- William Blake
“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.”
- Publilius Syrus
“The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.”
- Bryant H. McGill
“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
“To understand is to forgive, even oneself.”
- Alexander Chase
“The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.”
- Marianne Williamson