•“If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.” 
― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

•“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” 
― Abraham Lincoln

•“To err is human, to forgive, divine.” 
― Alexander Pope

•“Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.” 
― Edward Gibbon

•“True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.” 
― Oprah Winfrey

•“To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius.” 
― Joyce Cary

•“The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.” 
― Catherine Ponder

•“A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission.” 
― Santosh Kalwar

•“Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.”
― Marlene Dietrich   

•“I'm not perfect. Remember that, and try to forgive me when I fail you.” 
― Elizabeth Lowell

•“A heart filled with anger has no room for love.” 
― Joan Lunden

•“The ability to forgive is one of man's greatest achievements.”
― Bryant H. McGill 

•“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

•“Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another.”
― Jean Paul 

•“Sometimes a person needs to hear you forgive them so they can start to forgive themselves.” 
― Rachel Gibson

•“Forgiveness is the final form of love.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr 

•“Nothing releases like forgive. Nothing renews like forget.” 
― Ray Davis

•“Self redemption is the first step to exoneration from guilt.” 
― Dennis E. Adonis

•“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.” 
― Corrie ten Boom

•“Forgiveness is the fastest way to a spiritual path and inner peace of mind” 
― Muhaya Haji Mohamad

•“Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.” 
― Coretta Scott King

•“Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you are.” 
― Cherie Carter-Scott

•“Forgiveness is the only way to reverse the irreversible flow of history.” 
― Hannah Arendt

•“A broken friendship that is mended through forgiveness can be even stronger than it once was.” 
― Stephen Richards

•“Forgiveness is not about forgetting. It is about letting go of another person's throat.” 
― Wm. Paul Young

•“The truest grace is not to forgive, but to have never found fault.” 
― Richard Paul Evans

•“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.” 
― John F. Kennedy

•“Men who do not forgive women their little faults will never enjoy their great virtues.” 
― Kahlil Gibran

•“Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.” 
― Ilyas Kassam

•“To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.” 
― Confucius

•“There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive. ” 
― Alan Paton

•“Not forgiving is like drinking rat poison and then waiting for the rat to die.” 
― Anne Lamott

•“Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.” 
― T.D. Jakes

•“To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.” 
― C.S. Lewis

•“Forgive, son; men are men; they needs must err.”
― Euripides 

•“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

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

•“To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.” 
― Richard Paul Evans

•“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always find forgiveness.”
― Honore de Balzac 

•“Learn to love someone when they least deserve it, because that is when they need your love most.” 
― Rodolfo Costa

•“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.” 
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

•“Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.” 
― Ted Chiang

•“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”
― Desmond Tutu 

•“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

•“Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.” 
― William Arthur Ward

•“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

•“Forgiveness spares the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.” 
― Hannah More

•“Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation.”
― Roberto Assagioli 

•“As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.” 
― Nelson Mandela

•“If you expect honesty, be honest. If you expect forgiveness, forgive. If you expect a whole person, you have to be a whole person.” 
― Kristen Crockett

•“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.” 
― Martin Luther King Jr.

•“It is only when the mind is free from the old that it meets everything anew, and in that there is joy.” 
― Jiddu Krishnamurti

•“I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine.” 
― Jane Austen

•“We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness. ” 
― Ellen Goodman

•“Dumbledore says people find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.” 
― J.K. Rowling

•“Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.” 
― Emily Giffin

•“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.” 
― Oscar Wilde