Patience And Forbearance Quotes

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

C.L.R. James

#2. The mind of a wise man is the safest custody of secrets; cheerfulness is the key to friendship; patience and forbearance will conceal many defects.

Bill Vaughan

#3. {Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.

Louisa May Alcott

#4. God's grace is not infinite. God is infinite, and God is gracious. We experience the grace of an infinite God, but grace is not infinite. God sets limits to His patience and forbearance. He warns us over and over again that someday the ax will fall and His judgment will be poured out.

R.C. Sproul

#5. 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.

Oscar Wilde

#6. I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!

Vincent De Paul

#7. It is in length of patience, endurance and forbearance that so much of what is good in mankind and womankind is shown.

Arthur Helps

#8. An indispensable ingredient for spiritual maturation is the cultivation of fortitude: strength, forbearance, and patience.

B. Alan Wallace

#9. I think what life experience has brought to my poems is compassion. When you work hard to make a living, raise a child up into the world, fail at marriage and try again, teach and fail, travel and fall, become ill, well again, weak but grateful, you learn patience, forbearance.

Dorianne Laux

#10. There were no whys in a person's life, and very few hows. In the end, in search of useful wisdom, you could only come back to the most hackneyed concepts, like kindness, forbearance, infinite self patience.

Chad Harbach

#11. England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#12. And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

Simon Raven

#13. If there is no any patience, forbearance and forgiveness. Then there is no peace.

Muditha Champika

#14. First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times.

Ovid

#15. What does "true" even mean when it comes to a face? Only souls are true, and when you spill them to the air they melt away ...

Laini Taylor

#16. Patience is a conquering virtue. The learned say that, if it not desert you, It vanquishes what force can never reach; Why answer back at every angry speech? No, learn forbearance or, I'll tell you what, You will be taught it, whether you will or not.

Geoffrey Chaucer

#17. I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

Tawni O'Dell

#18. You mistake patience for forbearance.

George R R Martin

#19. The point is to unify the opposites, both positive and negative, by discovering a ground which transcends and encompasses both.

Ken Wilber

#20. The task of understanding the past is neverending.

Susanna Moore

#21. The acts of daily forbearance, the headache, or toothache, or heavy cold; the tiresome peculiarities of husband or wife, the broken glass ... all of these sufferings, small as they are, if accepted lovingly, are most pleasing to God's Goodness.

Francis De Sales

#22. The work needs to get out of your head and on to the table, and it needs to be done from the heart.

Paula Scher

#23. You love him, I can see it."
"More than anything."
That alone should be enough, he thought, but of course it never is. Courage has to come in there somewhere, and perseverance and forbearance and patience and all the rest. A job of work, as Uncle Billy would say, but worth it and then some.

Jan Karon

#24. Patience is a virtue Savannah, to tolerate delay. It implies self control and forbearance, as opposed to wanting what we want when we want it. Something to think about ...

Catherine Weaver

#25. Beloved, have you ever thought that someday you will not have anything to try you, or anyone to vex you again? There will be no opportunity in heaven to learn or to show the spirit of patience, forbearance, and longsuffering. If you are to practice these things, it must be now.

A.B. Simpson

#26. Advice to a Separated Couple - My brother, my sister, for some time you have not been living together. You should not have pursued this course and would not have done so if both of you had been cultivating the patience, kindness, and forbearance that should ever exist between husband and wife.

Ellen G. White

#27. You cannot teach today the same way you did yesterday to prepare students for tomorrow.

John Dewey