Les Brown Quotes

Being gentle means forgiving yourself when you mess up. We should learn from our mistakes, but we shouldn't beat the tar out of ourselves over them. The past is just that, past. Learn what went wrong and why. Make amends if you need to. Then drop it and move on.

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

The biggest lesson I’ve learned is, “It’s okay.” It’s okay for me to be kind to myself. It’s okay to be wrong. It’s okay to get mad. It’s ok to be flawed. It’s okay to be happy. It’s okay to move on.

Learn to forgive yourself and move on.

Life is too short to waste time harboring bad feelings about anyone. Forgive, forget, then move on!

I just don't see the point in beating myself up. I think it's more productive to concentrate on being a better person right now than punishing myself for who I was in the past.

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!

Forgiveness is not something that you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself, To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

Don't beat yourself up over what you could have or should have done. The past is gone. Move on to the future.

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

As long as you are carrying a secret, as long as you are trying to ease your conscience by telling God how sorry you are, you are setting yourself up to repeat the past.

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

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

You don't have to move on to let go.

Never think about something wrong you did in the past, always look forward with your head up high; have no regrets.

Learn to forgive yourself and to forgive others.

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.

Accept your failure, move on, and don't torture yourself.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

People spend thousands in therapy digging and digging in the past. When you dig and dig, you find relics. Try to forgive yourself and get back on that ride.

Letting yourself off the hook takes the stress away.

Forgive yourself, but don't forget

Forgiveness is an act of self-love and respect.

From speaking with my mother I learned that forgiveness is a process that begins with the choice to end your own suffering.

If we don't forgive ourselves for mistakes we've made-and everybody's made their choices, some worse than others-we'll never experience the good life God has in store.