Famous Quotes

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that."

Martin Luther King, Jr. on Forgiveness

More quotes about Forgiveness

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

  Mahatma Gandhi on Forgiveness

• "Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."

  John F. Kennedy on Forgiveness

• "Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

  Bruce Lee on Forgiveness

• "Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."

  Oscar Wilde on Forgiveness

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

  Mark Twain on Forgiveness

More quotes by Martin Luther King, Jr.

• "The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."

• "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."

• "Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent."

• "We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."

• "A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."