Quotes About Acceptance And Tolerance

#1. I raised my kids kind of old-fashioned - if you don't have something nice to say, then don't say it at all. I teach love, acceptance, and tolerance ... I sometimes think that this generation is lacking in decency.

Kris Jenner

#2. Acceptance and tolerance and forgiveness, those are life-altering lessons.

Jessica Lange

#3. With all the strength; Love encompasses compassion, determination, tolerance, endurance, support, faith and acceptance of whom you love.

Auliq Ice

#4. Go beyond tolerance to acceptance.

Jody Williams

#5. What is needed isn't merely tolerance but acceptance, wholehearted and unconditional.

Maria Popova

#6. It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

Helen Clark

#7. The most unpresentable persons are generally the most interesting.

Teresa De La Parra

#8. Don't fret, boy. I'm not so foolish as to ridicule the myths and legends of other people. For countless generations, people, no matter where they're from, have been trying to understand this world of ours.

Nahoko Uehashi

#9. Tolerance over time breeds resentment. Only through understanding, that comes from the acceptance of one another's differences, shall we find true peace.

Erndell Scott

#10. To live in love is life's greatest challenge. It requires more sublety, flexibility, sensitivity, understanding, acceptance, tolerance, knowledge and strength than any other human endeavor.

Leo Buscaglia

#11. Time for Tolerance,Equality, and Acceptance, It's allways TEA time with my Friends ...

Gregory Douglass

#12. The highest creed is Universal Acceptance.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. Accepting all the good and bad about someone. It's a great thing to aspire to. The hard part is actually doing it.

Sarah Dessen

#14. conformity created maladjustment and tradition could turn psychopathic. Her last sentences urged acceptance of cultural relativism and tolerance of differences.

Lily King

#15. One of the greatest disasters of our time is our universal acceptance of the word "tolerance" as a great virtue.

Zig Ziglar

#16. No army is comprised of all the same kinds of units or types of troops. There is power in diversity. If you always see only one choice, or use only one option, you will surely lose more than you win.

A.J. Darkholme

#17. Don't ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Dalai Lama

#18. The absence of dissent does not necessarily imply acceptance; just tolerance.

Lakshmy Menon Chatterjee

#19. I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true.

Swami Vivekananda

#20. Tolerance is the eager and glad acceptance of the way along which others seek the truth.

Walter Besant

#21. Actually, tolerance and acceptance are different. To tolerate seems to mean that there is something negative to tolerate, doesn't it?

Bill Konigsberg

#22. I think any film that asks its audience a degree of tolerance and acceptance of those less fortunate than themselves isn't a bad thing from whatever culture you're in or from whatever part of any political spectrum.

Hugh Bonneville

#23. You cannot be a positive influence to the "sinners at the table" if you refuse to dine with them.

Donald L. Hicks

#24. Our unity will always be a greater force with mixed ideals than if we demand that others change for us, to what we believe.

A.J. Darkholme

#25. Tolerance is the seed, and the gift of pure acceptance is the tree

India.Arie

#26. If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard.

Arthur Japin

#27. Happiness is life served up with a scoop of acceptance, a topping of tolerance and sprinkles of hope, although chocolate sprinkles also work.

Robert Breault

#28. Celebrating love, wherever it is found" (Trevor Dennis). I'm using this sermon title as the essence of my novel

Trevor Dennis

#29. This book is a labor of love. It is dedicated to people who have cried themselves to sleep because they were 'different'. It is also a celebration of the 'inner outcast' in all of us, and a humble attempt to inspire tolerance, understanding, and acceptance. the intro from the author

Jodee Blanco

#30. Still not sure about how easily he could be integrated into their posse, Trevor smiled in delighted relief at how tolerantly two of his close friends had received his new identity.

Zack Love

#31. Empathy, as we have seen, leads to caring, altruism, and compassion. Seeing things from another's perspective breaks down biased stereotypes, and so breeds tolerance and acceptance of differences.

Daniel Goleman

#32. I've found more tolerance, acceptance and inclusion from social conservative groups who have to reconcile that I'm a Republican who happens to be gay ... versus the intolerance the LGBT leaders see me as a gay man who happens to be a Republican.

Carl DeMaio

#33. Tolerance ain't the same as acceptance, even though we all wish it was.

Amy Ray

#34. Tolerance is the first principle of community; it is the spirit which conserves the best that all men think.

Helen Keller

#35. ...here on Coney Island, we learn to take each other as we are.

H.P. Wood

#36. Tolerance is just a fancy word for ignoring a fascist ideology. Acceptance is the only way.

Jessica Jung

#37. If our goal is to be tolerant of people who are different than we are, Chase, then we really are aiming quite low. Traffic jams are to be tolerated. People are to be celebrated.

Glennon Doyle Melton

#38. Tolerance is NOT acceptance. And that's the problem with ALL religion. It teaches acceptance only for those who believe exactly as you do, and at best, tolerance for the rest of us "sinners." Sorry. Not acceptable.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#39. Certainly tolerance and acceptance were at the forefront of my music.

Bruce Springsteen

#40. Tolerance also requires a public acceptance of beliefs and values at odds with our own, beliefs and values that we may consider wrongheaded and even immoral. ... In this context, a morally passionate citizen becomes strangely intolerable.

Wendy Brown

#41. End the eternal battle of beliefs once and for all. If you are a believer, love your fellow non-believer for all the good things he or she has to offer. And if you are an atheist, then love your fellow believer for all the positivity he or she possesses.

Abhijit Naskar

#42. Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience - I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed.

CeeLo Green

#43. You solve it as you get older, when you reach the point where you've tasted so much that you can somehow sacrifice certain things more easily, and you have a more tolerant view of things like possessiveness (your own) and a broader acceptance of the pains and the losses.

Ted Hughes

#44. Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me.

Lady Gaga

#45. The goals of true education are to teach acceptance, tolerance, and nonviolence.

Debasish Mridha

#46. I think tolerance and acceptance and love is something that feeds every community.

Lady Gaga

#47. He was tired
of being called
a fag and teased
for his sexuality
by one of the guards,
so he tried to hang
himself, twice

The kid got a little
closer the second
time, but I won't be
around to see a
third

Phil Volatile

#48. Tolerance is the positive and cordial effort to understand another's beliefs, practices, and habits without necessarily sharing or accepting them.

Joshua L. Liebman

#49. Never let the principle of what you believe in become more important than the person.

Shannon L. Alder

#50. For the Left, tolerance does not mean tolerance. It means first, acceptance. And second, celebration. That is totalitarianism: You not only have to live with what you may differ with, dear citizen, you have to celebrate it or pay a steep price.

Dennis Prager