Forbearance Quotes
67 quotes by 63 authors
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We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything.…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled - because…
— Oscar Wilde
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LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Now may the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the eternal high priest himself, the Son of God Jesus Christ, build you…
— Polycarp
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The last, best fruit which comes to late perfection, even in the kindliest soul, is tenderness toward the hard, forbearance toward the unforbearing, warmth of…
— Jean Paul
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The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have…
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.
— James Madison
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Canada's eminent position today is a tribute to the patience, tolerance, and strength of character of her people, of both French and British strains. For…
— Harry S. Truman
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We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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When ambitious desires arise in thy heart, recall the days of extremity thou have passed through. Forbearance is the root of all quietness and assurance…
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it.…
— Catherine Weaver
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Love should be the silver thread that runs through all your conduct. Kindness, gentleness, long suffering, forbearance, patience, sympathy, a willingness to enter into childish…
— J C Ryle
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Those externalized costs have always included labor. It is only the decline over time of the minimum wage in real dollars that's made the fast…
— Michael Pollan
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Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of…
— Kevin DeYoung
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Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons...…
— Fulton J. Sheen
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There is nothing to do with men [and women] but to love them; to contemplate their virtues with admiration, their faults with pity and forbearance,…
— Orville Dewey
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The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.
— C L R James
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Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever.
— Ieyasu Tokugawa
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There are no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back…
— Chad Harbach
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...the framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up by…
— Robert E. Lee
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