Quotes about forgiveness

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Diana, Princess of Wales

There’s a forgiveness that literary audiences will give you that film audiences don’t give you. It’s the two hour construct. You’re in there and it needs to climax and finish.

Will Smith

South Africans must recall the terrible past so that we can deal with it, forgiving where forgiveness is necessary but never forgetting.

Nelson Mandela

That person who is the hardest to forgive is the one who can teach you the greatest lessons. When you love yourself enough to rise above the old situation, then understanding and forgiveness will be easy. And you’ll be free.

Louise Hay

One moment of true forgiveness can erase years of guilt, pain, or fear.

Alan H. Cohen

We never ask God to forgive anybody except when we haven’t.

Elbert Hubbard

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.

William Blake

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

George Bernard Shaw

Today I forgive all those who have ever offended me. I give my love to all thirsty hearts, both to those who love me and to those who do not love me.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our intellects.

Oscar Wilde