(113 quotes found)
“Confess yourself to heaven: Repent what's past; avoid what is to come”
William Shakespeare
“Sudden friendship, sure repentance.”
Proverb
“Forethought is easy, repentance hard”
Chinese Proverbs
“To fill the hour, that is happiness; to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“If you have sinned, do not lie down without repentance; for the want of repentance after one has sinned makes the heart yet harder and harder”
John Bunyan
“The only vice that cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.”
William Hazlitt
“Confession is the first step to repentance.”
English Proverb
“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance”
Pythagoras
“Repentance for silence is better than repentance for speaking”
Moorish Proverb
“When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.”
Horace Mann