Quotes with forgive

  • A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
  • Some tension is necessary for the soul to grow, and we can put that tension to good use. We can look for every opportunity to give and receive love, to appreciate nature, to heal our wounds and the wounds of others, to forgive, and to serve.
  • You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.
  • Man, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
  • The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naïve forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
  • I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
  • We're only here to love God and each other. I'm not saying I've never gotten angry at anyone. I do. But you've got to forgive and move on.
  • People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.
  • Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don't want the other person to forget that we forgave.
  • Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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  • Oscar Wilde Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Edgar W. Howe A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man.
    Edgar W. Howe
    American journalist and writer (1853 - 1937)
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  • Emma Goldman Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Les Brown Forgive those who have hurt you.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Mahatma Gandhi The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
    Mahatma Gandhi
    Indian politician (1869 - 1948)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher ''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld ''To forgive oneself? No, that doesn't work: we have to be forgiven. But we can only believe this is possible if we ourselves can forgive.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Stevie Smith A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
    Stevie Smith
    English poet and novelist (1902 - 1971)
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  • Sydney Justin Harris A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive
    Sydney Justin Harris
    American journalist (1917 - 1986)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?''
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • William Arthur Ward Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • François Fénelon Children are excellent observers, and will often perceive your slightest defects. In general, those who govern children, forgive nothing in them, but everything in themselves.
    François Fénelon
    French writer and archbishop (1651 - 1715)
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  • Oscar Wilde Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely if ever do they forgive them.
    A Woman of No Importance (1893)
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Oscar Wilde Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.
    The Canterville Ghost
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • William Arthur Ward 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
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Mark Twain Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties, then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern determination, it comes easy.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • George Bernard Shaw Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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