Forbearance Quotes

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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
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
LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge. — Ambrose Bierce
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
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
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
It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other. — James Madison
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
We must work harder to build mutual respect, an attitude of tolerance, with forbearance one for another. — Gordon B. Hinckley
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
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
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
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
Holiness is the sum of a million little things â€” the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of… — Kevin DeYoung
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
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
The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich. — C L R James
Forbearance is the root of quietness and assurance forever. — Ieyasu Tokugawa
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
...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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