A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days. —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe More about this quote Tags: boredom ordinariness tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The highest result of education is tolerance. —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgement of others. —Kahlil Gibran More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
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 about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. —Woodrow Wilson More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Flowers . . . put up no resistance to attack, suffer evil rather than inflicting it, imitate carnal love, multiply without fighting, and die without complaining. . . . They have realized the dream of Buddha: to desire nothing, to tolerate everything, to be absorbed in oneself to the depths of the unconscious will. —J. Rambosson More about this quote Tags: evil will fighting desire flowers tolerance Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email