“The best way to find inner peace is the practice in forbearance.” — sir kristian goldmund aumann Copy Share Image
The problem with forbearance is that it always looks like a good thing to do until it stops working. — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
There are three signs of a knowledgeable person: knowledge, forbearance and silence. — Ali ibn Abi Talib Copy Share Image
It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown. — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is not a person we employ who does not, like ourselves, desire recognition, praise, gentleness, forbearance, patience. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
For nothing is more commendable, nothing more becoming in a preeminently great man than courtesy and forbearance. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
In the long run an opinion often borrows credit from the forbearance of its patrons. — Henry James Copy Share Image
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element… — Fethullah Gulen 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
We value the devotedness of friendship rather as an oblation to vanity than as a free interchange of hearts; an endearing contract… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our… — Robert Toombs Copy Share Image
Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever… — Martin Van Buren Copy Share Image
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow, Teach me how to wait on You when my way I… — Helen Steiner Rice 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
Those who directed the state in the time of Solon and Cleisthenes did not establish a polity which ... trained the citizens… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
Every deviation from the rules of charity and brotherly love, of gentleness and forbearance, of meekness and patience, which our Lord prescribes… — Richard Mant Copy Share Image
I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The reputations of the Lord's people should be very precious in our sight...We may ourselves one of these dark days need forbearance… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
To those who would submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionists,… — William Tecumseh Sherman 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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image