Forbearance Quotes

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

I am a Christian, and the Bible teaches me to forgive.

Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

Only the brave know how to forgive...

Alexander is as gentle after victory as he is terrible in the field.

To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

The Constitutional framers were peace men; but they preferred revolution to peaceful submission to bondage. They were quiet men; but they did not shrink from agitating against oppression. They showed forbearance; but that they knew its limits. They believed in order; but not in the order of tyranny. With them, nothing was "settled" that was not right. With them, justice, liberty and humanity were "final;" not slavery and oppression.

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.

Love is on the verge of hate each time it stoops for pardon.

The Queen returns these communications to Sir James Graham, which are of a very unpleasant nature. The Queen trusts that measures of the greatest severity will be taken, as well to suppress the revolutionary spirit as to bring the culprits to immediate trial and punishment. The Queen thinks this of the greatest importance with respect to the effect it may have in Ireland, likewise as proving that the Government is willing to show great forbearance, and to trust to the good sense of the people; but that if outrages are committed and it is called upon to act, it is not to be trifled with, but will visit wrong-doers with the utmost severity.

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 Canada is enriched by the heritage of France as well as of Britain, and Quebec has imparted the vitality and spirit of France itself to Canada. Canada's notable achievement of national unity and progress through accommodation, moderation and forbearance can be studied with profit by her sister nations.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

There is no forgiveness in nature.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Patience is of two kinds: patience over what pains you, and patience against what you covet.

You're making the grant of affection, forbearance, mercy, out of your own experience and, of course, out of cultural tradition. You're saying, to use the well-worn analogy, if I love my children, that puts me under obligation to assume that other people love theirs.

The ruler should make the utmost effort to behave gently and avoid governing harshly.

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, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

The real or supposed rights of man are of two kinds, active and passive; the right in certain cases to do as we list; and the right we possess to the forbearance or assistance of other men.

The spirit of forgiveness should prevail, and there should be tolerance and understanding among all political parties for us to move forward.

[The Dalai Lama] told me some years ago, "I've made every concession to China, and I've been as open and tolerant as I could, and still things get worse in Tibet." If you look at it from one point of view, as he himself says, his monastic position of forbearance and nonviolence hasn't reaped any benefits. And yet, he's thinking in terms of the long term, of centuries.

The patience and forbearance of the poor are among the strongest bulwarks of the rich.

Revenge is easy, but forgiveness requires courage.