32 Movie Quotes about Forgiveness (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Feb 2, 2026

Memorable quotes about forgiveness, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 Because that's what friends do! They forgive each other!

Eddie Murphy as Donkey in Shrek (2001)

2 When you fight and beat your opponent, you've only won a physical match. But then, if you can show him kindness, well, then, that man may surrender his heart to you.

Quote from Challenge of the Masters

3 But that's no crime!

Paul Winchell as Tigger in The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh

4 How many times have I told you I hated you and believed it in my heart? How many times have you said you were sick and tired of me, that we were all washed up? How many times have we had to fall in love all over again?

Myrna Loy as Milly Stephenson in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

5 Now hear this. I shall accept punishment for the lives that I've took.

Bruce Lee as Dubbed In English By Unknown Actor in Fist of Fury (The Chinese Connection)

6 It's mercy, compassion, and forgiveness I lack. Not rationality.

Uma Thurman as The Bride Black Mamba in Kill Bill: Volume 1

7 I was afraid of you, Julius. I only saw what I was afraid of. And now I know I was only hating my brother.

Ryan Hurst as Gerry Bertier in Remember the Titans

8 Let's bury the hatch. I say, let's bury the hatchet, but not in anyone's head, boy. Hatchet head.

Mel Blanc as Foghorn Leghorn in Foghorn Leghorn Shorts

9 He can be a pretty good guy. And then other times he can be... But why kick? You got to take the bad with the good.

Gloria Grahame as Debby Marsh in The Big Heat (1953)

10 Oh, I mean, come on. Everybody makes mistakes. He's human. -Oh, yeah? Prove it.

Martin Short as Martin Harvey in Captain Ron