Forgiveness Quotes

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

“Wrongs are often forgiven, but contempt never is. Our pride remembers it forever.” Lord Chesterfield

“It is to the credit of human nature, that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates. Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.” Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” Voltaire

“It is very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.” Jessamyn West

“Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves.” Sidney and Suzanne Simon

“We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.” Sir Francis Bacon

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

“The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbor 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

“Repentance is another name for aspiration.” Henry Ward Beecher

“In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I’m keeping a chart.” Hillary Rodham Clinton