Forgiveness Or Permission Quotes & Sayings

It is often easier to ask for forgiveness than to ask for permission. — Grace Hopper

It's better to ask forgiveness than permission.
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Where there is no repentance, forgiveness is only permission by another name. I — Gene Wolfe

Didn't anyone ever teach you that it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission? — Emily Horner

Never ask for permission, beg for forgiveness. — Bobbi Brown

[I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission. — Mary Doria Russell

It's easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to get permission. — Rebecca Stead

If there was one truth Evie had learned in her short life, it was that forgiveness was easier to seek than permission. She didn't plan to ask for either one. — Libba Bray

When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering. — John Bruna

It's easier to ask forgiveness than to beg for permission. — Lora Leigh

A strong gives forgiveness but weak gives permission. — Santosh Kalwar

Some people live life asking for forgiveness instead of permission. — Alecia Whitaker

Once you decide to forgive, you initiate the healing process. Forgiveness gives your soul permission to move on to the higher and healthier ground of emotional recovery. Forgiveness is to your soul what antibiotics are to infection. It is the curative agent that will help to fully restore your soul. It doesn't immediately remove the pain of defense but it does start you on the road to recovery. — Will Davis Jr.

It's a lot easier to ask a woman's forgiveness than her permission. — Dennis Lehane

I always say, better ask forgiveness than permission. — Christopher Paolini

It was easier to ask for forgiveness than permission? — Kate Brian

Maybe the best thing we can do for our spouses is give them permission to forgive themselves. — Justin Davis

We don't have permission to kill him," Bull said. "A finger slips, think we can get forgiveness?" "Probably. — James S.A. Corey

Better to ask forgiveness than permission and to answer their shenanigans with even better shenanigans. — Kevin Hearne

Ask for Forgiveness, Not Permission — John Marsden

The first time he had hit her, he had been so wracked with remorse, she had actually felt sorry for him. Consumed by guilt and self-loathing, he had sobbed in her arms like a child, swearing it would never happen again and begging for her forgiveness. Her stomach turned over now at the thought of how she had comforted him, assuring him that she trusted him and promising that she would never leave. She saw now with sickening clarity that she had been setting a precedent - giving him permission to do it again; reassuring him that she would tolerate anything.

If only she had walked out there and then. — Cleary James

We have a saying, where I come from: Power requires neither permission nor forgiveness. — Ann Leckie

Don't ask permission to be happy. Don't beg for forgiveness. Just do it. — Paulo Coelho

Between asking permission and begging forgiveness, I lean toward the latter. — Becca Fitzpatrick

It is better to ask for forgiveness then permission. — Tucker Max

Change isn't made by asking permission. Change is made by asking forgiveness, later. — Seth Godin

Ask forgiveness, not permission. But make sure you bring your results with you. — Amy Jo Martin

A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied. — Richard Preston

Easier by far, thought Ambassador Spock, to get forgiveness than permission. Humans might have invented that saying, but its applications were universal. The — Josepha Sherman

Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness. — Drake