Thomas S. Monson Quotes

If I stayed angry at other people, I would miss finding friends among those I was angry with.

No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently - and tolerantly - to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.

We often pardon those that annoy us, but we cannot pardon those we annoy.

Sometimes there's just no room for apologies.

Don't let your pride or a lack of courage stand in the way of saying you're sorry to people you may have offended.

It is difficult for a proud man ever to forgive a person who has found him at fault, and who has good grounds for complaining of him; his pride is not assuaged till he has regained the advantages he lost and put the other person in the wrong.

I think there are more people waiting to forgive me than I need to forgive them.

Think about it: what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellow men. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

It is often more necessary to conceal contempt than resentment; the former is never forgiven, but the later is sometimes forgotten.

To forgive somebody is to say one way or another, "You have done something unspeakable, and by all rights I should call it quits between us. Both my pride and my principles demand no less. However, although I make no guarantees that I will be able to forget what you've done, and though we may both carry the scars for life, I refuse to let it stand between us. I still want you for my friend.

I once met a man who had forgiven an injury. I hope some day to meet the man who has forgiven an insult.

I don't like anybody to be angry with me. I'd rather have friends.

I'd like to be more forgiving. There are times when I've had a hard time forgiving people who have betrayed me.

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.

I will always forgive but I will never forget.

A man should never apologize!

There is nothing that people bear more impatiently, or forgive less, than contempt: and an injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

It's not so easy to forgive.

In our private lives, we hate saying sorry. I would rather saute my eyeballs in butter than admit I am wrong to my husband.

People wonder why a man and woman can't be friends after being in love. It is because it's very tough to look beyond the hurt and try to find a common ground to be friends. It's it like a healing wound.

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Sometimes you forgive people simply becuase you still want them in your life.

Those who do not forgive history are assigned to repeat it until compassion replaces judgment.

I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile.