I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

—Ralph W. Sockman

More quotations from Ralph W. Sockman

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

—Ralph W. Sockman

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

—Ralph W. Sockman

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

—Ralph W. Sockman

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

—Ralph W. Sockman

More quotations tagged with “tolerance”

To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others.

—Kahlil Gibran

The highest result of education is tolerance.

—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Be entirely tolerant or not at all; follow the good path or the evil one. To stand at the crossroads requires more strength than you possess.

—Helen Keller

In the modern world, self-control buys a good life indeed. Having self-control to spare is rare enough nowadays that the marketplace lavishes huge rewards on society's scary new self-control elite, those lords of discipline who not only withstood all that boring stuff in graduate school, but keep themselves thin by carefully regulating what they eat after flogging themselves off to the gym at the crack of dawn. It's as if they got the news ahead of the rest of us-no doubt by waking up earlier-that self-control may well be the most important trait of the twenty-first century.

—Heinrich Heine

A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days.

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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