23 Top Forgiveness Quotes

These are 23 of the top forgiveness quotes I have found in my research.

As a leader, you constantly need to speak and remind your team about principles of success and quotes add creditability to your speeches. By using sayings that great leaders and wise men of old have used before, you add the extra impact to the point you’re trying to make.

Forgiveness quotes will help you to find the strength to forgive those who have offended you, let go of them and find freedom in your heart. This quotes I have chosen are specifically meant for that purpose. Use these quotes to inspire and motivate!

23 Top Forgiveness Quotes

Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt

Always forgive your enemies – nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.
Lewis B. Smedes

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.
Bryant H. McGill

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
Marianne Williamson

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Josh Billings

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.
Marianne Williamson

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

We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.
Frederick William Robertson

The first step in forgiveness is the willingness to forgive.
Marianne Williamson

The more we know, the better we forgive. Those who feel deeply feel for all living beings.
Madame de Stael

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.
Peter Ustinov

Forgiveness is the release of all hope for a better past.
Alexa Young

The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.
Confucius

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mohandas K. Gandhi

To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller

Genuine forgiveness does not deny anger but faces it head-on.
Alice Miller

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edwin Chapin

He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.
George Herbert

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.
Lewis B. Smedes

Forgiveness is me giving up my right to hurt you for hurting me.
Anonymous

Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
Cherie Carter-Scott

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Bonus Links to Quotes

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