Quotes About Forgiveness

Do not seek revenge and call it justice.

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.

One enemy is too much.

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

Lord restore thine image, hear my call: And though my hard heart scarce to thee can groan, Remember that thou once didst write in stone.

Mexican people never say they're sorry. My grandmother, when I was young, hit me with her car. I was in the driveway–pang! "You know where I park, cabron. Mira, where the oil is." Did she say she was sorry? "Ta loco, he's seven. When he starts paying the bills, then I'll say sorry."

Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.

Here I should like to remark, for the sake of princes and princesses in general, that it is a low and contemptible thing to refuse to confess a fault, or even an error. If a true princess has done wrong, she is always uneasy until she has had an opportunity of throwing the wrongness away from her by saying: 'I did it; and I wish I had not; and I am sorry for having done it.

You are a sorry creature, Flashman. I have failed in you. But even to you I must say, this is not the end. You cannot continue here, but you are young, Flashman, and there is time yet. Though your sins be as red as crimson, yet shall they be as white as snow. You have fallen very low, but you can be raised up again …

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

I should have known better than to cheat a friend / And waste the chance that I'd been given / So I'm never gonna dance again / The way I danced with you.

Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.

The North remembers.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won ..

Women do not forget. Women do not forgive.

I'm sorry that I never trusted you. I don't know how to do that anymore.

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

Sins may be forgiven. Crimes require punishment.

So if you must hate, Arya, hate those who would truly do us harm

When your enemies defy you, you must serve them steel and fire. When they go to their knees, however, you must help them back to their feet. Elsewise no man will ever bend the knee to you

I pray he found the peace in death that he never knew in life.

So long as men remember the wrongs done to their forebears, no peace will ever last.

Once a turncloak, ever a turncloak," Lord Cregan said. "You rose up in rebellion against your lawful queen and helped drive her from this city to her death, raised up your own squire in her place, then abandoned him to save your worthless hide. The realm will be a better place without you." When Ser Perkin protested that he had been pardoned for those crimes, Lord Stark replied, "Not by me.