Pat Summitt Quotes

Love breeds tolerance, tolerance breeds peace. ... Love cannot be indifferent. It does not know how.

I can't get mad about peoples' opinions, I always say that. That's their opinion. They got every right to say or think whatever they want to say and think. And whatever they say and think don't affect my life.

Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.

Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

Avoiding offense means that we don't accept each other as equals.

It is natural to have differences and still remain friends.

I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me.

What you learn is that you can't please everyone all the time.

In order to have understanding, you need forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

I don't have a problem with anybody in Toronto.

In this world where we live, some people are going to love you, some people are going to hate you - that's what it is. You cannot try to force everybody to love you, it's not gonna work.

I have come to a point where I have accepted that not everyone is meant to be friends.

I'm all about respect and I never get outside myself as far as calling people out.

We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerably that I would be much less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.

Mutual respect implies discretion and reserve even in love itself; it means preserving as much liberty as possible to those whose life we share. We must distrust our instinct of intervention, for the desire to make one's own will prevail is often disguised under the mask of solicitude.

Understanding, love and tolerance are the highest forms of interest on out small and interdependent planet.

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

Be kind to dumb people.

Our collective future depends on opening channels of compassion, acceptance, and understanding of others.

You have to meet people where they are, and sometimes you have to leave them there.

Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth.

I'm not unaware of how I'm perceived, I just don't care about it. Unless I really hurt someone's feelings. I care about that.

Those who behave in ways that displease you are sending out their disharmony toward you because that is what they have to give away. Hating them is akin to hating moss for growing on a tree.

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

We are not for everyone and everyone is not for us. The question is, 'If we cannot be with another, can we at least not hurt them? Can we, at least, find a way to coexist?'