Top 100 Forgiveness Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Forgiving someone isn’t just about doing good to another. It’s also about healing a scar in your own heart.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

52. “Forgive those who have hurt you.”

— Les Brown

53. “Every relationship has tough days. Don’t let the grudge last. Be the first to try to make things right and stop waiting for an apology.”

— Nouman Ali Khan

54. “Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.”

— Sri Chinmoy

55. “Let us learn to live with kindness, to love everyone, even when they do not love us.”

— Pope Francis

56. “He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.”

— Thomas Fuller

57. “Watch out for each other. Love everyone and forgive everyone, including yourself. Forgive your anger. Forgive your guilt. Your shame. Your sadness. Embrace and open up your love, your joy, your truth, and most especially your heart.”

— Jim Henson

58. “Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace. The cost to God was the Cross of Christ.”

— Oswald Chambers

59. “You are helpful, and you are loved, and you are forgiven, and you are not alone.”

— John Green

60. “Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.”

— T.D. Jakes

61. “Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.”

— Byron Katie

62. “If we really want to love we must learn how to forgive.”

— Mother Teresa

63. “Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”

— Les Brown

64. “For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

65. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”

— Desmond Tutu

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

— Ben Greenhalgh

67. “Forgiveness is the final form of love.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

68. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

69. “Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.”

— Cherie Carter-Scott

70. “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

71. “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

72. “I free myself from hatred through forgiveness and love.”

— Paulo Coelho

73. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

— Oscar Wilde

74. “Forgiveness is not a feeling; it is a commitment.”

— Gary Chapman

75. “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”

— Alexander Pope

76. “Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.”

— Ann Landers

77. “Forgiveness means it finally becomes unimportant that you hit back.”

— Anne Lamott

78. “The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.”

— John Green

79. “To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”

— Lewis B. Smedes

80. “I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

— James Baldwin

81. “Anytime you try to be a loving person, you’re doing your part to save the world.”

— Marianne Williamson

82. “When you forgive, you in no way change the past – but you sure do change the future.”

— Bernard Meltzer

83. “True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."”

— Oprah Winfrey

84. “Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

85. “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

86. “We think that forgiveness is weakness, but it’s absolutely not; it takes a very strong person to forgive.”

— T.D. Jakes

87. “Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself.”

— Suzanne Somers

88. “Forgiveness is a virtue of the brave.”

— Indira Gandhi

89. “He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass.”

— George Herbert

90. “There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.”

— Josh Billings

91. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.”

— Cesare Pavese

92. “I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.”

— Henry Ward Beecher

93. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

94. “He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

95. “The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.”

— Catherine Ponder

96. “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.”

— Catherine Ponder

97. “People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.”

— Bill Cosby

98. “Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.”

— William Arthur Ward

99. “Strength of character means the ability to overcome resentment against others, to hide hurt feelings, and to forgive quickly.”

— Lawrence G. Lovasik

100. “Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.”

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin