Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
“He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Humility, reverence, compassion, forbearance, sacrifice and self-control are the qualities that reveal the outcome of the true education. — Sai Baba Copy Share Image
“Forbearance and genuine tenderheartedness are much tougher than niceness, and sometimes…tough love is confrontational (p. 54).” — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Marriage teaches you loyalty, forbearance, self-restraint, meekness, and a great many other things you wouldn't need if you had stayed single. — Paul Tournier Copy Share Image
DONT return to me I had patience initial forbearance, but now ... I do Not — ISRAA ALI Copy Share Image
“Forbearance is a maiden's worst enemy. If you're happy, that's all that counts.” — Novala Takemoto Copy Share Image
Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There… — A. B. Simpson Copy Share Image
The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom, and forbearance in its formation, and surrounded it with so many… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the… — Jean Paul Copy Share Image
There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with… — Orville Dewey Copy Share Image
In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the… — Mark Zandi Copy Share Image
Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I… — George Canning Copy Share Image
“In a Zen retreat we have a format for working with these quicksilver changes: we sit with them, we pay attention to… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generation - my generation… — Gerald R. Ford Copy Share Image
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to… — Mary Karr Copy Share Image
“The Chinese ideograph for forbearance is a heart with a sword dangling over it, another instance of language's brilliant way of showing… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
What we need most now as Americans is forbearance and tolerance of our fellow citizens who hold views opposite or different than… — John Lars Zwerenz Copy Share Image
“Jeanie Deans, to our thinking, is the cream and perfection of Scott's work. She is tenfold more, because in all ordinary circumstances… — Mrs. Oliphant Copy Share Image
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“As to the fragments of morality that are irregularly and thinly scattered in those books [the Bible], they make no part of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image