1. There is freedom in forgiveness, and it’s not that hard to do once you get into the habit.

- Dana Perino

2. Life is grace. Sleep is forgiveness. The night absolves. Darkness wipes the slate clean, not spotless to be sure, but clean enough for another day’s chalking.

- Frederick Buechner

3. I like cast iron coated with enamel for longevity and forgiveness if I happen to take my eyes off the prize while pouring Chianti.

- Mario Batali

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

- Marianne Williamson

5. One forgives to the degree that one loves.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

6. I’m all about preaching forgiveness and compassion.

- Michel de la Montaigne

7. When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

- Alan Paton

8. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

- Thomas Szasz

9. Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too.

- Will Smith

10. Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

- Gerald G. Jampolsky

11. If there are occasions when my grape turned into a raisin and my joy bell lost its resonance, please forgive me. Charge it to my head and not to my heart.

- Jesse Jackson

12. Forgiveness must be immediate, whether or not a person asks for it. Trust must be rebuilt over time. Trust requires a track record.

- Rick Warren

13. Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back. You’re done.

- Anne Lamott

14. God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.

- Henry Ward Beecher

15. Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you’ve closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

- Desmond Tutu

16. Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim–letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.

- C.R. Strahan

17. To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless.

- G.K. Chesterton

18. And you know, when you’ve experienced grace and you feel like you’ve been forgiven, you’re a lot more forgiving of other people. You’re a lot more gracious to others.

- Rick Warren

19. Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.

- Karl Lagerfeld

20. The remedy for life’s broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don’t try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

- Iyanla Vanzant

21. Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

- Igor Stravinsky

22. When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God’s light shines upon you.

- John Krakauer

23. To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.

- C.S. Lewis

24. Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge.

- Isaac Friedmann

25. Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

- Oprah Winfrey

26. It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.

- Jewel

27. Forgiveness is a sign that the person who has wronged you means more to you than the wrong they have dealt.

- Ben Greenhalgh

28. Forgive me my nonsense, as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense.

- Robert Frost

29. It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.

- Steve Maraboli

30. True forgiveness is not an action after the fact, it is an attitude with which you enter each moment.

- David Ridge

31. Just knowing you don’t have the answers is a recipe for humility, openness, acceptance, forgiveness, and an eagerness to learn – and those are all good things.

- Dick Van Dyke

32. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

- Mahatma Gandhi

33. One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

- Bernard Baruch

34. Forgiveness to the injured does belong; but they ne’er pardon who have done wrong.

- John Dryden

35. But if you forgive someone for something they did to you, it doesn’t mean you agree with what they did or believe it was right. Forgiving that person means you have chosen not to dwell on the matter anymore; you have moved on with your life.

- Idowu Koyenikan

36. The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

- Steve Maraboli

37. It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies – because you never know when you’ll have to work with them.

- Lana Turner

38. We don’t forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it—because we need it.

- Bree Despain

39. It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

- Maya Angelou

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

- Robert Muller

41. I think the first step is to understand that forgiveness does not exonerate the perpetrator. Forgiveness liberates the victim. It’s a gift you give yourself.

- T.D. Jakes

42. 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

43. I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.

- Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner

44. Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

- Jessica Lange

45. We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

46. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

- George Eliot

47. Every year during their High Holy Days, the Jewish community reminds us all of our need for repentance and forgiveness.

- Billy Graham

48. Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

- Mackenzie Phillips

49. There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

- Bryant H. McGill

50. Most of us can forgive and forget; we just don’t want the other person to forget that we forgave.

- Ivern Ball

51. Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure.

- Jane Austen

52. When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.

- Katherine Ponder

53. A life lived without forgiveness is a prison.

- William Arthur Ward

54. See, forgiveness doesn’t happen all at once. It’s not an event — it’s a process. Forgiveness happens while you’re asleep, while you’re dreaming, while you’re inline at the coffee shop, while you’re showering, eating, farting… It happens in the back of your mind, and then one day you realize that you don’t hate the person anymore, that your anger has gone away somewhere. And you understand. You’ve forgiven them. You don’t know how or why. It sneaked up on you. It happened in the small spaces betw

- Barry Lyga

55. How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

- Publilius Syrus

56. To understand somebody else as a human being, I think, is about as close to real forgiveness as one can get.

- David Small

57. Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.

- Cherie Carter Scott

58. A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.

- Stephen Richards

59. God’s forgiveness allows us to be honest with ourselves. We recognize our imperfections, admit our failures, and plead to God for clemency.

- Jonathan Sacks

60. Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace.

- Jonathan Huie

61. Forgiveness takes time. It is the last step of the grieving process.

- Elin Nordegren

62. To understand is to forgive, even oneself.

- Alexander Chase

63. 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

64. America loves a forgiveness story. America is the land of second chances.

- Michael Caputo

65. Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

- Scott Adams

66. We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends.

- Sir Francis Bacon

67. I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him.

- C.S. Lewis

68. Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.

- Anne Lamott

69. The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy.

- William Hazlitt

70. 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.

- Tyler Perry

71. Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

- Philips Brooks

72. It’s far easier to forgive an enemy after you’ve got even with him.

- Olin Miller

73. Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

- St. Augustine

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

- Mark Twain

75. Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

76. Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.

- Corrie Ten Boom

77. If you can’t forgive and forget, pick one.

- Robert Brault

78. Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.

- Ausonius

79. Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

80. Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.

- Jean Paul

81. Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

- Billy Graham

82. If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness.

- Nelson Mandela

83. You can’t forgive without loving. And I don’t mean sentimentality. I don’t mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, ‘I forgive. I’m finished with it.’

- Maya Angelou

84. Any fool knows men and women think differently at times, but the biggest difference is this. Men forget, but never forgive; women forgive, but never forget.

- Robert Jordan

85. Forgiveness is God’s greatest gift

- Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

86. All major religious traditions carry basically the same message; that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives.

- Dalai Lama

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

- Marlene Dietrich

88. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

- Abraham Lincoln

89. Wise man say: forgiveness is divine, but never pay full price for late pizza.

- Michelangelo, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

90. Forgiveness isn’t approving what happened. It’s choosing to rise above it.

- Robin Sharma

91. We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

92. Forgotten is forgiven.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

93. As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

- Joan Baez

94. Forgive those who have hurt you.

- Les Brown

95. Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

- J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prin

96. Forgiveness really is so misunderstood, as well as the power it can release in an individual.

- Jennifer O’Neill

97. People have to forgive. We don’t have to like them, we don’t have to be friends with them, we don’t have to send them hearts in text messages, but we have to forgive them, to overlook, to forget. Because if we don’t we are tying rocks to our feet, too much for our wings to carry!

- C. Joybell C.

98. Choosing forgiveness opens the door of your heart and makes way for a miracle in your life.

- Victoria Osteen

99. 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

100. Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.

- Louise L. Hay

101. Forgiveness is the answer to the child’s dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again.

- Dag Hammarskjold

102. Forgiveness is the final form of love.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

103. The ineffable joy of forgiving and being forgiven forms an ecstasy that might well arouse the envy of the gods.

- Elbert Hubbard

104. Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it’s something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

- Jim Beaver

105. Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.

- Corrie Ten Boom

106. Without forgiveness life is governed by an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.

- Roberto Assagioli

107. 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.

- George Herbert

108. As long as you don’t forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy a rent-free space in your mind.

- Isabelle Holland

109. Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.

- T.D. Jakes

110. To confer dignity, forgive. To express contempt, forget.

- Mason Cooley

111. Can you really forgive if you can’t forget?

- Sarah Jessica Parker

112. We win by tenderness. We conquer by forgiveness.

- Frederick William Robertson

113. The act of forgiveness takes place in our own mind. It really has nothing to do with the other person.

- Louise L. Hay

114. I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.

- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

115. Forgiveness is that subtle thread that binds both love and friendship. Without forgiveness, you may not even have a child one day.

- George Foreman

116. It is in pardoning that we are pardoned.

- Francis of Assisi

117. I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

- Catherine the Great

118. 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

119. Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.

- Criss Jami

120. Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

- Oscar Wilde

121. True forgiveness is when you can say, ‘Thank you for that experience.’

- Oprah Winfrey

122. I believe in forgiveness; I believe in trying to work with people.

- John Lewis

123. To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

- Confucius