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Quotes About Understanding

I don't pick on anybody who has a number above 30.
~ Mike Ditka
Players need you to care, especially when they do not deserve it.
~ John Kessel
Reporters often forget that athletes are human beings.
~ Willie Stargell
In Gym, the kids on my team learned not to pass me the ball and to step quickly in front of me if the other team tried to take advantage of my weakness. I happily stayed out of their way.
~ Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
If you are not prepared to look at your pupils strength's, don't touch their weaknesses.
~ Reuven Feuerstein
I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
~ Nina Bawden
Real strength entails being considerate and supportive of people's feelings.
~ Mary Kay Ash
The greatest strength a man can achieve is gentleness.
~ Monty Roberts
Our cultural strength has always been derived from our diversity of understanding and experience.
~ Yo-Yo Ma
Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.
~ Dalai Lama
Patience is a strength, not a weakness; and if by practicing patience we stop retaliating to harm and criticism, people will gradually come to understand that our real nature is very special
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
I have this strength that comes from knowledge.
~ Faith Hill
The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness. They are signs of strength.
~ Dalai Lama
It is much more valuable to look for the strength in others. You can gain nothing by criticizing their imperfections.
~ Daisaku Ikeda
Silence is no weakness of language. It is, on the contrary, its strength. It is the weakness of words not to know this.
~ Edmond Jabes
True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.
~ Meher Baba
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
If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If you see what is small as it sees itself, and accept what is weak for what strength it has, and use what is dim for the light it gives then all will go well. This is called Acting Naturally.
~ Laozi
Knowing others is to be clever. Knowing yourself is to be enlightened. Overcoming others requires force. Overcoming yourself requires strength.
~ Laozi
Sometimes true tolerance requires an extraordinary strength, which we are often too weak to exercise.
~ Fausto Cercignani
No one else will ever know the strength of my love for you. After all, you're the only one who knows the sound of my heart from the inside.
~ Kristen Proby
I can bear pain myself, he said softly, but I couldna bear yours. That would take more strength than I have.
~ Diana Gabaldon