Quotes of Forbearance - somelinesforyou

“ Patience and gentleness is power. ”

- Leigh Hunt

“ The patience of the hunter is always greater than that of the prey. ”

- Traditional Saying

“ Everything in moderation — including moderation. ”

- Harvey Steiman

“ It's going to take a certain man for me to ever get involved with, because he'll have to realize I don't have two children, I have three. Tommy is always going to always be a part of my life. ”

- Pamela Anderson

“ We're about moderation. ”

- Jenny Craig

“ He that can have patience can have what he will. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them every day begin the task anew. ”

- Saint Francis de Sales

“ Everything in Moderation. ”

- Plato

“ There is moderation in everything. ”

- Horace

“ Clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. ”

- Bible

“ And then mentally, do I have the patience to see that through? ”

- Phil Jackson

“ Moderation in all things. ”

- Terence

“ Nothing is so full of victory as patience. He that can have patience can have what he will. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself. ”

- St. Francis De Sales

“ When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. ”

- Helen Hayes

“ Have patience with all the world, but first of all with yourself. ”

- Saint Francis de Sales

“ I have patience in all things — as far as the antechamber. ”

- Gustave Flaubert

“ You can't have genius without patience. ”

- Margaret Deland

“ Whatever you do, do it in moderation. ”

- Unknown

“ A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. ”

- Moliere

“ Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience. ”

- George Louis Leclerc de Buffon

“ Everything in moderation, including moderation. ”

- Julia Child

“ 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 our national security, we will act. ”

- Ronald Reagan

“ There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Endeavor to be always patient of the faults and imperfections of others for thou has many faults and imperfections of thine own that require forbearance. If thou are not able to make thyself that which thou wishest, how canst thou expect to mold another in conformity to thy will? ”

- Thomas a Kempis

“ Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now. ”

- P. T. Barnum

“ I appeal to all Irishmen to pause, to stretch out the hand of forbearance and conciliation, to forgive and forget, and to join with me in making for the land they love a new era of peace, contentment and goodwill. ”

- King George V

“ We find nothing easier than being wise, patient, superior. We drip with the oil of forbearance and sympathy, we are absurdly just, we forgive everything. For that very reason we ought to discipline ourselves a little; for that very reason we ought to cultivate a little emotion, a little emotional vice, from time to time… ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ To exercise power costs effort and demands courage. That is why so many fail to assert rights to which they are perfectly entitled — because a right is a kind of power but they are too lazy or too cowardly to exercise it. The virtues which cloak these faults are called patience and forbearance. ”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

“ The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature — were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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