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100+ Forgive Yourself Quotes, Feel Better with Self-Forgiveness

Forgive yourself quotes are inspirational words of wisdom that can help you to forgive yourself after you do something wrong. Learn more about forgiving yourself with these quotes.

It’s so easy to get trapped in the guilt and self-doubt circles of destructive thinking. Forgive yourself quotes can help you learn to let go of negative thoughts about your past mistakes.

Forgiveness opens the way for us to love others and to love ourselves. Forgiving others is the turning point, self-forgiveness is the key.

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Forgive Yourself Quotes

Forgiving yourself is hard, especially when you’re still hurting. Truth be told: it’s tough to forgive someone else too.

You can’t expect others to forgive and forget if you can’t do the same for yourself. This post will help you clear your mind of guilt and shame and live a happier life.

  • When blame and self-judgement are transformed, healed, and cease to be, we have reawakened without the myth, the mythos, of separation. We are One.
  • The more you know yourself, the more you forgive yourself.”
  • It’s toughest to forgive ourselves. So it’s probably best to start with other people. It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.”
  • Forgive yourself and welcome love back into your life.
Forgive Yourself Quotes
  • Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That’s why we call it the present.”
  • Distractions sometimes look like opportunities when you don’t know where you are going!”
  • When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.

When we give ourselves self-compassion, we are opening our hearts in a way that can transform our lives. – Kristin Neff

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  • Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.”
  • The words that broke me and the tears that sunk me helped me build the boat that led me to an island I never saw before
  • Forgiving is love’s toughest work, and love’s biggest risk.
Forgive Yourself Quotes
  • Stay faithful where you are and god will take you to your destiny and purpose.”
  • Forgive yourself for not knowing what you didn’t know before you learned it. — Maya Angelou
  • The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.”

You were doing the best you could with the experience and tools you had at the time. Forgive yourself…”

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  • We all make mistakes, don’t we? But if you can’t forgive yourself, you’ll always be an exile in your own life.
  • Forgiveness is making a conscious decision to live in the present… even if the past still hurts.”
  • Forgiving yourself, not guilt, increases personal accountability.
Forgive Yourself Quotes
  • Don’t dwell too much on the past. The lessons are useful for the present and a preparation for the future. Move on!
  • In order to heal, we must first forgive … and sometimes the person we must forgive is ourselves. – Mila Bron

Forgive Yourself And Move on Quotes

Forgiving yourself for a mistake is one of the first steps to being able to forgive others.

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  • You, Lord, are forgiving and good, abounding in love to all who call to you.”
  • It is such a great moment of liberation when you learn to forgive yourself, let the burden go, and walk out into a new path of promise and possibility.
  • Forgiveness is for yourself because it frees you. It lets you out of that prison you put yourself in.” Louise Hay
  • The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.”
  • Feeling compassion for ourselves in no way releases us from responsibility for our actions. Rather, it releases us from the self-hatred that prevents us from responding to our life with clarity and balance. – Tara Brach
  • You need to learn to forgive yourself first.
Forgive Yourself And Move on Quotes
  • Forgiveness is man’s deepest need and highest achievement.”
  • Your problem isn’t the problem, your reaction is the problem.”
  • Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.
  • You need to learn to accept your flaws and forgive yourself.

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  • Forgive yourself. The supreme act of forgiveness is when you can forgive yourself for all the wounds you’ve created in your own life. Forgiveness is an act of self-love. When you forgive yourself, self-acceptance begins and self-love grows. — Miguel Ángel Ruiz Macías
  • THE ONE, WHO FORGIVE THYSELF WILL NOT FORGIVE OTHERS
  • You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of you love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. – Buddha
  • To forgive is to set a prisoner free and realize that prisoner was you.
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Forgive Yourself And Move on Quotes
  • Be courageous enough to forgive yourself; never forget to be compassionate to yourself.
  • People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.”
  • Perhaps, if you knew then what you know now you would have done it differently. You are a different person today. Forgive yourself, and move on.
  • Be kind to yourself, dear – to our innocent follies. Forget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. You will come to see that all evolves us. –Rumi
  • “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

Forgive Yourself First Quotes

Forgive Yourself First Quotes is a collection of short and inspiring quotes from great thinkers from all across the globe.

  • The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
  • Stop beating yourself up because of your past bad decisions. No one’s past is spotless. Learn from your past and start over. God’s mercies are endless.” -Terraine Francois
  • Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves. – Pema Chodron
  • Holding a grudge doesn’t make you strong; it makes you bitter. Forgiving doesn’t make you weak; it sets you free.”
  • Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.” Ruth Carter Stapleton
Forgive Yourself First Quotes
  • “Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.” ~ Les Brown
  • You must forgive those who hurt you, even if whatever they did to you is unforgivable in your mind. You will forgive them not because they deserve to be forgiven, but because you don’t want to suffer and hurt yourself every time you remember what they did to you. Forgiveness is your own mental healing. Forgiveness is an act of self-love.”
  • Through one’s tears for the past, one’s future becomes blurred.

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  • We cannot change anything unless we accept it. –Carl Jung
  • Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
  • “Everyone makes mistakes. The wise are not people who never make mistakes, but those who forgive themselves and learn from their mistakes.” ~ AjahnBrahm
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  • You cannot travel back in time to fix your mistakes, but you can learn from them and forgive yourself for not knowing better.”
  • Some choose to live in the past, all they see is your past, as such they belong in your past.
  • Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done. When you get to that time that is now, make a full and total forgiveness of your entire life and smile at the bouquet in your hands because it truly is beautiful.
  • Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you. – Anonymous
Forgive Yourself First Quotes
  • When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again.”
  • “If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self.” ~ Maya Angelou
  • The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don’t forgive yourself, you’re not going to forgive your kids, either.”
  • If I hadn’t forgiven myself, I wouldn’t be strong enough to love someone this much.
  • “Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself – have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.” ~ Mary Anne Radmacher

Learn to Forgive Yourself Quotes

Why wait for forgiveness from others when you can learn to forgive yourself. Let these quotes be an inspiration to forgive yourself today, and to love yourself unconditionally.

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  • Sometimes when things are falling apart they may actually be falling into place. –Anonymous
  • You forgive yourself for every failure because you are trying to do the right thing. God knows that and you know it. Nobody else may know it.”
  • Silently repeat to yourself: I forgive myself for any ways in which I knowingly or unknowingly caused hurt or harm to any living being or creature. I forgive all who have ever hurt or harmed me. Everything between us is now cleared up.” Michael Beckwith
  • “The past doesn’t determine your future unless you carry it with you into the present. Forgiving yourself and others, you free the universe to begin again at any moment.” ~ Marianne Williamson
  • Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.
  • Remember that when you forgive, you empty yourself so that you may receive.
Learn to Forgive Yourself Quotes
  • Forgive yourself first. Release the need to replay a negative situation over and over again in your mind. Don’t become a hostage to your past by always reviewing and reliving your mistakes. Don’t remind yourself of what should have, could have or would have been. Release it and let it go. Move on.”
  • “You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you’ve been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then MOVE ON!” ~ Wayne Dyer
  • “The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.” ~ James Van Praagh

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  • Embrace and love all of yourself – past, present, and future. Forgive yourself quickly and as often as necessary. Encourage yourself. Tell yourself good things about yourself.”
  • Forgiveness for ourselves and other is one of the main elements in growth. It allows us to free ourselves of the issues that are holding us down.
  • There are only 2 two ways to have a peaceful conscience: Never do anything wrong or learn self-forgiveness (Pro tip: first way’s impossible)”
  • “Never forget that to forgive yourself is to release trapped energy that could be doing good work in the world.” ~ D. Patrick Miller
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  • “I think one of the most important things is starting off the day forgiving others and forgiving yourself. You learn from your mistakes, but I don’t think you have to drag them back into today.
  • Love yourself – accept yourself – forgive yourself, and be good to yourself, because without you the rest of us are without a source of many wonderful things.”
  • “Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.”
Learn to Forgive Yourself Quotes
  • All we have to do is forgive ourselves wholly and completely for ever thinking that we are not good enough!
  • “There is a lot to look at when you are serious about transformation. You look at everything you’ve ever done, every circumstance you’ve ever been in, cleaning up everything in your past. Reconciling, forgiving others, forgiving yourself. It’s a lot of work, actually.” ~ Marianne Williamson
  • Forgiveness is really a gift to yourself – have the compassion to forgive others, and the courage to forgive yourself.
  • “It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times. For they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing.”

Forgive Yourself And Let Go Quotes

Forgive yourself and let go of everything that doesn’t serve you anymore. When you do, you can fully embrace life, love, pain, sadness, happiness, the future.

  • It’s toughest to forgive ourselves, so it’s probably best to start with other people. It’s almost like peeling an onion, layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.”
  • Forgiveness hurts but its reward is priceless.
  • “Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.” ~ William Shakespeare
  • Forgiving yourself, believing in yourself and choosing to love yourself are the best gifts one could receive.”
  • I have learned that sometimes sorry is not enough. Sometimes you actually have to change.”
  • Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.”
Forgive Yourself And Let Go Quotes
  • In the shadow of my hurt, forgiveness feels like a decision to reward my enemy. But in the shadow of the cross, forgiveness is merely a gift from one undeserving soul to the next.”
  • “The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.” ~ Timothy Keller
  • You cannot move on until you accept this you will not receive closure in every situation. But you can create it for yourself. Most of what other people do is about them, not you. Some things cannot be explained. Some people won’t apologize because they can’t. You cannot change people, no matter how much you think they need to change. People change themselves.”

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  • “You can sit there forever, lamenting about how bad you’ve been, feeling guilty until you die, and not one tiny slice of that guilt will do anything to change a single thing in the past. Forgive yourself, then move on!”
  • We say, ‘I can’t forgive him’ or ‘I can’t forgive her’ because we humans think we own something. At the end we were born with nothing and when we all die we take nothing with us.
  • The simple truth is, we all make mistakes, and we all need forgiveness.”
  • “It’s toughest to forgive ourselves. So it’s probably best to start with other people. It’s almost like peeling an onion. Layer by layer, forgiving others, you really do get to the point where you can forgive yourself.” ~ Patty Duke
  • Forgiveness is not just what we receive; it is also what we give – to ourselves.
Forgive Yourself And Let Go Quotes
  • We all make mistakes, don’t we? But if you can’t forgive yourself, you’ll always be an exile in your own life
  • Forgiveness command unconditional based on grace requires nothing of the offender Trust not a command conditional based on works requires much of the offender”
  • First night in the barracks. MoysheEttinger tells us how he saved himself and cannot forgive himself. The evening prayer is recited and Kaddish is set for the dead.
  • People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.”
  • “True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.” ~ Robert Holden
  • The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.”

Quotes About Forgive Yourself

Forgive yourself. Forget about the past. Stop worrying about what others are doing. Stop thinking about how you used to be, only focus on the present. This quote collection will help you do just that.

  • “I now choose to release all hurt and resentment.”
  • We are nice; but we’re broken.
  • To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.”
  • He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
  • “I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side”
  • 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.”
  • The best way to calm the anxious mind is to forgive yourself and others.
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  • Jesus answered, “I say to you, not seven times but seventy-seven times.
  • Forgive others not because they deserve forgiveness but because you deserve peace”
  • Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as god in Christ forgave you.”
  • How people treat you is their karma; How you react is yours.”
  • Everyone makes mistakes. If you can’t forgive others, don’t expect others to forgive you.”

Final Words

This is a list of quotes that you should read whenever you feel guilty about something. Nobody is perfect, and therefore sometimes we make mistakes, hurt other people’s feelings, or do something wrong.

And because this happens, we could often beat ourselves up or won’t forgive ourselves for those actions.

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