Bernard Baruch - One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to bed.
Catherine the Great - I shall be an autocrat: that's my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that's his.
Sydney J. Harris - A winner rebukes and forgives; a loser is too timid to rebuke and too petty to forgive.
Arthur Balfour - I never forgive, but I always forget.
Princess Diana - When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.
Heinrich Heine - God will forgive me. It's his job.
Jane Austen - Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.
Ausonius - Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.
Jewel - Forgiveness is the needle that knows how to mend.
Robert Fripp - A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable.
Elizabeth I - God forgive you, but I never can.
Martin Luther - Forgiveness is God's command.
John F. Kennedy - Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Harriet Beecher Stowe - The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Reinhold Niebuhr - Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Josh Billings - There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Robert Frost - Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.
Grace Hopper - It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. - Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.
Bruce Lee - Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them.
Thomas Szasz - The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.
Tyler Perry - It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
William Blake - It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
Lewis B. Smedes - To forgive is to set a prisoner and discover that the prisoner was you.
Francis of Assisi - It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.
Mahatma Gandhi - The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Bernard Meltzer - When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Jessica Lange - Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.
T. D. Jakes - We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
Suzanne Somers - Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.
Hannah Arendt - Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
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