Forbearance Quotes

67 Forbearance quotes by 63 unique authors

Hardship, in forcing us to exercise greater patience and forbearance in daily life, actually makes us stronger and more robust. From the daily experience of… — Dalai Lama
The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no… — Friedrich Nietzsche
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging… — Mahatma Gandhi
We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear,… — Robert Toombs
If this advertisement be not sufficient, I can only protrude my wormlike tendrils of apology, craving forbearance on the grounds that a writer must write… — William T. Vollmann
What we can and should change is ourselves: our impatience, our egoism (including intellectual egoism), our sense of injury, our lack of love and forbearance.… — Hermann Hesse
But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried the Ghost, wringing… — Charles Dickens
The Lesson You've Got to learn is the someday you'll someday stagger to, blinking in cold light, all tears shed, ready to poke your bovine… — Mary Karr
Forbearance in the face of fate, beauty constant under torture, are not merely passive. They are a positive achievement, an explicit triumph. — Thomas Mann
You mistake patience for forbearance. — George R. R. Martin
God, teach me to be patient, teach me to go slow, Teach me how to wait on You when my way I do not know.… — Helen Steiner Rice
Godâ€™s grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite.… — R C Sproul
{Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on… — Louisa May Alcott
There are two kinds of pity. One, the weak and sentimental kind, which is really no more than the heart's impatience to be rid as… — Stefan Zweig
I have never heard about any perfect marriage. They say perfect marriages are made in heaven. Nobody comes back from there so maybe it is… — Rajneesh
Marriage is an institution that teaches a man regularity, frugality, temperance, forbearance and many other splendid virtues he would not need had he stayed single. — Rajneesh
Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems;… — Fethullah Gulen
That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,… — Patrick Henry
The Bush administration continues to coddle China, despite its continuing crackdown on democratic reform, its brutal subjugation of Tibet, its irresponsible export of nuclear and… — William J. Clinton
A good youth ought to have a fear of God, to be subject to his parents, to give honor to his elders, to preserve his… — Saint Ambrose

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