Motivational Quotes

Tolerance

For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.

- More, Thomas

Best Quotes about Tolerance

Once lead this people into war and they will forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.

Woodrow Wilson

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.

Harris, Sidney J.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

Colby, Frank Moore

To tolerant everything is too teach nothing.

Kinsman, F. J.

People are very open-minded about new things. As long as they are exactly like the old ones.

Kettering, Charles F.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Goldsmith, Sir James

Pass no rash condemnation on other peoples words or actions.

Kempis, Thomas

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

Maugham, W. Somerset

10.

No human trait deserves less tolerance in everyday life, and gets less, than intolerance.

Leopardi, Giacomo

11.

Travel teaches tolerance.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

13.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Keller, Helen

14.

Whenever you hold a fellow creature in distress, remember that he is a man.

Seneca

15.

Tolerance is a very dull virtue. It is boring. Unlike love, it has always had a bad press. It is negative. It merely means putting up with people, being able to stand things.

Forster, Edward M.

16.

As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

Since others have to tolerate my weaknesses, it is only fair that I should tolerate theirs.

White, William Allen

18.

For this is one of the ancientest laws among them; that no man shall be blamed for reasoning in the maintenance of his own religion.

More, Thomas

19.

It is easy to be tolerant of the principles of other people if you have none of your own.

Samuel, Herbert

20.

Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

Gandhi, Mahatma

21.

You tolerate me, you really tolerate me. [Accepting his Independent Spirit Award]

Penn, Sean

22.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor

23.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Ralph W. Sockman

24.

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.

Heinrich Heine

25.

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.

Daniel Akst

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The highest result of education is tolerance.

Helen Keller