Tolerance Quotes

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Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree — India.Arie
If indeed the qualities such as love, patience, tolerance, and forgiveness are what happiness consists in, and if it is also true that compassion, defined… — Dalai Lama
To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in… — Dalai Lama
Tolerance is a virtue, but like all virtues, when exaggerated, it transforms itself into a vice. We need to be careful of the â€œtolerance trapâ€… — Boyd K. Packer
Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions… — Nelson Mandela
The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are. — Georgie Anne Geyer
Compassion is an act of tolerance where kindness and forgiveness reign. When we make the compassionate choice, we enhance the dignity of each individual, which… — Leo Buscaglia
We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance. — Dalai Lama
We must never remain silent in the face of bigotry. We must condemn those who seek to divide us. In all quarters and at all… — Ronald Reagan
Part of building a new nation means building a spirit of tolerance, love and respect amongst the people of this country. — Nelson Mandela
We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their… — Dalai Lama
I hear the word 'tolerance'-tha t some people are trying to teach people to be tolerant of gays. I'm not satisfied with that word. I… — Chely Wright
September 11 was, and remains, above all an immense human tragedy. But September 11 also posed a momentous and deliberate challenge not just to America… — Tony Blair
Indiscriminate tolerance and indiscriminate condemnation are not two opposites: they are two variants of the same evasion. To declare that â€œeverybody is whiteâ€ or â€œeverybody… — Ayn Rand
Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the… — Dalai Lama
Tolerance is a proof of distrust in one's own ideals. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use… — Nelson Mandela
Religious tolerance does not mean one cannot express his own beliefs. It does mean that seeking to undermine or attack the religious faith and beliefs… — L. Ron Hubbard
I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not… — Swami Vivekananda
Tolerance is the last virtue of a depraved society. When an immoral society has blatantly and proudly violated all the commandments, it insists upon one… — Hutton Gibson

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