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

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. – Madame Dorothée Deluzy

Know all and you will pardon all. – Thomas a Kempis

I pardon him as God shall pardon me. – William Shakespeare

What we forgive too freely doesn’t stay forgiven. – Mignon McLaughlin

For ’tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal’s language;–on earth it is called Forgiveness! – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Without forgiveness life is governed by… an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. – Roberto Assagioli

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. – Sterne

Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. – Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard, Abe Martin’s Broadcast, 1930

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

Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. – Harriet Nelson

Forgiveness is a funny thing.  It warms the heart and cools the sting. – William Arthur Ward

One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. – Franklin P. Jones

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. – E.H. Chapin

Forgiveness is a game only saints play Kabir. – Kabir

I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance. – Adlai Stevenson

The man who forgives is far stronger than the man who fights. – Nathan Croall

The offender never pardons. – George Herbert

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

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. – Quintus Horatius Flaccus

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

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

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover the prisoner was YOU. – Unknown

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven. – Lord Herbert

To err is human; to forget, divine. – J. H. Goldfuss

Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne’er pardon who have done the wrong. – John Dryden

Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. – Isaac Friedmann

If you overpower your enemy, then pardon him by way of thankfulness to Allah, for being able to subdue him. – Hazrat Ali

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. – Rambler

If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. – Mahatma Gandhi