Forbearance Quotes

67 Forbearance quotes by 63 unique authors

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. — Charles Dickens
I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with… — Vincent de Paul
The tree can teach you forbearance and tolerance. It offers shade to all, irrespective of age, sex or religion, nationality or status. It helps with… — Sathya Sai Baba
I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every… — Jane Austen
Forbearance is a form of generosity. — Gretchen Rubin
Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve… — Ronald Reagan
Whatever folly men commit, be their shortcomings or their vices what they may, let us exercise forbearance; remember that when these faults appear in others… — Arthur Schopenhauer
No one thing does human life more need than a kind consideration of the faults of others. Every one sins; everyone needs forbearance. Our own… — Henry Ward Beecher
Nothing is more becoming in a great man than courtesy and forbearance — Marcus Tullius Cicero
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Euphemisms are not, as many young people think, useless verbiage for that which can and should be said bluntly; they are like secret agents on… — Quentin Crisp
In a forbearance, the homeowner pays interest and principal on a smaller mortgage, at least for a time, but still owes the full amount. The… — Mark Zandi
It may be observed in general that the future is purchased by the present. It is not possible to secure distant or permanent happiness but… — Samuel Johnson
The difficult part of good temper consists in forbearance, and accommodation to the ill-humors of others. — William Empson
A strong defense is the surest way to peace. Strength makes detente attainable. Weakness invites war, as my generationmy generationknows from four very bitter experiences.… — Gerald R. Ford
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

Who Wrote These Forbearance Quotes

63 authors contributed a total of 67 Forbearance Quotes, led by these top contributors: